U+111B0 "๐ฐ" Sharada Letter Ssa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
๐ฐ
U+111B0 "๐ฐ" Sharada Letter Ssa is a character from the Sharada script, an ancient writing system historically used for the Kashmiri and Sanskrit languages in the Kashmir region and parts of North India. This specific character represents the retroflex sibilant consonant sound "แนขa," distinct from the standard "Sa" in the script, and it is part of the broader Sharada block in Unicode that encodes over 80 letters for this abugida. The Sharada script holds significant historical and cultural value, particularly for its use in Hindu and Buddhist manuscripts, and the inclusion of this character in Unicode helps preserve and digitally represent this endangered script for modern computing and scholarly research.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+111B0 |
| Version Added | 6.1 |
| Name | Sharada Letter Ssa |
| Block | Sharada |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𑆰 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𑆰 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x91 0x86 0xB0 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD804 0xDDB0 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000111B0 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud804\uddb0 |