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

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Alphabetic
Script Bhaiksuki
Script Extensions Bhaiksuki
Indic Syllabic Category Consonant
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Rotated
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter