U+11338 "𑌸" Grantha Letter Sa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𑌸
U+11338 "𑌸" Grantha Letter Sa is a character from the Grantha script, an ancient South Indian writing system used historically to write Sanskrit and the Dravidian language Tamil in scholarly contexts. This specific character represents the consonant "sa" and is part of the Grantha block in Unicode, which preserves the distinctive round, calligraphic forms of the script. Its inclusion in Unicode supports the digital representation of early Tamil and Sanskrit manuscripts, aiding in linguistic research, religious studies, and preservation of literary heritage from the Pallava and later periods of southern India.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+11338 |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Grantha Letter Sa |
| Block | Grantha |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𑌸 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𑌸 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x91 0x8C 0xB8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD804 0xDF38 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00011338 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud804\udf38 |