U+10A2E "𐨮" Kharoshthi Letter Ssa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐨮
U+10A2E "𐨮" Kharoshthi Letter Ssa is part of the Kharoshthi script, an ancient writing system used primarily in the northwestern regions of the Indian subcontinent from around the 3rd century BCE to the 4th century CE. This character represents a specific consonantal sound, the retroflex sibilant, often transliterated as "ṣ" or "ssa," and was employed in writing texts such as Buddhist manuscripts, inscriptions, and administrative records. As a component of the Kharoshthi block added to Unicode in version 4.1 in 2005, it helps preserve and digitally represent a historically significant script that bridges Indo-Aryan and Middle Eastern linguistic influences.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+10A2E |
| Version Added | 4.1 |
| Name | Kharoshthi Letter Ssa |
| Block | Kharoshthi |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Right To Left |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐨮 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐨮 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0xA8 0xAE |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD802 0xDE2E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00010A2E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud802\ude2e |