U+11C2C "ð‘°¬" Bhaiksuki Letter Ssa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+11C2C "𑰬" Bhaiksuki Letter Ssa is part of the Bhaiksuki script, an ancient Brahmi-derived alphabet historically used in regions of northern India and Nepal primarily for writing Buddhist texts. This specific character represents the retroflex sibilant consonant sound "Ṣa," which is a voiceless retroflex fricative, and it was encoded in Unicode version 9.0 released in 2016. The Bhaiksuki script itself is named after the Bhaikṣukī tradition of Buddhist monks and is known for its rounded, ornate letterforms, with this letter appearing as a distinctive symbol in manuscripts and inscriptions that date from around the 11th to 16th centuries.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+11C2C |
| Version Added | 9.0 |
| Name | Bhaiksuki Letter Ssa |
| Block | Bhaiksuki |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𑰬 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𑰬 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x91 0xB0 0xAC |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD807 0xDC2C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00011C2C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud807\udc2c |