U+0CB8 "ಸ" Kannada Letter Sa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ಸ
U+0CB8 "ಸ" Kannada Letter Sa is a glyph representing the voiceless alveolar sibilant consonant sound /s/ in the Kannada script. It corresponds to the first letter of the Kannada alphabet in its structured order and serves as a fundamental building block for writing numerous words in the Kannada language. This character is used in various contexts, from everyday communication to literary works, and can combine with other diacritical marks to represent different vowel sounds, making it essential for accurate phonetic representation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0CB8 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Kannada Letter Sa |
| Block | Kannada |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ಸ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ಸ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xB2 0xB8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0CB8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000CB8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0cb8 |