U+103F "ဿ" Myanmar Letter Great Sa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ဿ
U+103F "ဿ" Myanmar Letter Great Sa is a distinctive consonant in the Burmese script, specifically used to represent a voiceless alveolar sibilant sound, similar to "sa," but it is historically and orthographically reserved for transliterating Pali and Sanskrit texts rather than native Burmese words. This character is formed as a ligature of two "sa" letters, reflecting its origin as a conjunct or double consonant in ancient Indian-derived scripts. In modern usage, it appears primarily in Buddhist religious writings and pali canon, reinforcing its specialized role in preserving precise pronunciation in liturgical and scholarly contexts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+103F |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Myanmar Letter Great Sa |
| Block | Myanmar |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ဿ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ဿ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x80 0xBF |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x103F |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000103F |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u103f |