U+10488 "𐒈" Osmanya Letter Sa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐒈
U+10488 "𐒈" Osmanya Letter Sa is a letter from the Osmanya script, an alphabet created in the early 20th century by Osman Yusuf Kenadid for writing the Somali language. It represents the sound /s/ and is the twenty first letter of the Osmanya alphabet, which was designed to replace the Arabic script for Somali and to better reflect the phonetic structure of the language. Although the script saw limited official use and was largely supplanted by the Latin alphabet for Somali, the Osmanya script remains a significant part of Somali cultural heritage and is supported in Unicode for historical and scholarly purposes.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+10488 |
| Version Added | 4.0 |
| Name | Osmanya Letter Sa |
| Block | Osmanya |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐒈 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐒈 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0x92 0x88 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD801 0xDC88 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00010488 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud801\udc88 |