U+0CB7 "ಷ" Kannada Letter Ssa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ಷ
U+0CB7 "ಷ" Kannada Letter Ssa is a character from the Kannada script used to represent the retroflex sibilant sound, similar to the English "sh" but articulated with the tongue curled back against the palate. It is part of the Kannada language’s consonant inventory, derived from the Brahmi script, and is used in words such as "ಕಷ್ಟ" which means difficulty or "ಷೋಡಶ" meaning sixteen. This letter is encoded in the Unicode block for Kannada, ranging from U+0C80 to U+0CFF, and plays a key role in distinguishing meaning in words through its phonetic nuance.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0CB7 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Kannada Letter Ssa |
| Block | Kannada |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ಷ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ಷ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xB2 0xB7 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0CB7 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000CB7 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0cb7 |