U+0B38 "ସ" Oriya Letter Sa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ସ
U+0B38 "ସ" Oriya Letter Sa is a vowel consonant character used in the Odia script, which is employed to write the Odia language predominantly spoken in the Indian state of Odisha. It represents the voiceless alveolar sibilant sound /s/, similar to the English letter "s" in words like "sun". The character is part of the Oriya Unicode block, which encompasses a range of letters and diacritical marks essential for representing Odia phonetics, literature, and digital text communication. Visually, it resembles a looping, open form with a horizontal top line, characteristic of the rounded script style of Odia writing.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0B38 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Oriya Letter Sa |
| Block | Oriya |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ସ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ସ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xAC 0xB8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0B38 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000B38 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0b38 |