U+0AB7 "ષ" Gujarati Letter Ssa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ષ
U+0AB7 "ષ" Gujarati Letter Ssa is a distinct consonant in the Gujarati script, representing a retroflex sibilant sound that is pronounced with the tongue curled back against the roof of the mouth, similar to the "sh" in "shrimp" but more articulated. It is classified as a consonant letter in the Gujarati abugida, where it carries an inherent vowel sound "ə" unless modified by a diacritic. This character is used in writing the Gujarati language, primarily for transcribing words from Sanskrit and other Indo-Aryan languages that contain the retroflex "ṣa" sound, and it appears in both literary and everyday contexts within the Gujarati writing system.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0AB7 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Gujarati Letter Ssa |
| Block | Gujarati |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ષ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ષ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xAA 0xB7 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0AB7 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000AB7 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0ab7 |