U+0BB8 "ஸ" Tamil Letter Sa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ஸ
U+0BB8 "ஸ" Tamil Letter Sa is a consonant in the Tamil script that represents the voiceless alveolar fricative sound [s], originally introduced to write Sanskrit and English loanwords, as the native Tamil inventory had historically shifted this sound to a different articulation. It occupies a position within the vowel chart's supplementary consonants and is encoded in the Tamil Unicode block, playing a key role in modern Tamil writing for accurately rendering borrowed terms and names from other languages.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0BB8 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Tamil Letter Sa |
| Block | Tamil |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ஸ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ஸ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xAE 0xB8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0BB8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000BB8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0bb8 |