U+0C37 "ష" Telugu Letter Ssa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ష
U+0C37 "ష" Telugu Letter Ssa is a symbol from the Telugu script, which is used to write the Telugu language primarily in the Indian states of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana. This character represents the retroflex sibilant consonant sound similar to the "sh" in English "shut," and it is part of the consonant inventory of the Telugu abugida, where each consonant carries an inherent vowel sound that can be modified with diacritics. In digital text encoding, this character allows for the accurate representation and processing of Telugu text, preserving the unique phonological distinctions of the language in Unicode's comprehensive system for global writing systems.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0C37 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Telugu Letter Ssa |
| Block | Telugu |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ష |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ష |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xB0 0xB7 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0C37 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000C37 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0c37 |