U+11C8D "𑲍" Marchen Letter Sa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𑲍
U+11C8D "𑲍" Marchen Letter Sa is a glyph representing a consonant from the Marchen script, an ancient Brahmic writing system historically used in the Tibetan Empire and parts of Central Asia to transcribe the extinct Zhangzhung language. This specific character, known as 'Sa', corresponds to the voiceless alveolar fricative sound /s/ and is structurally akin to other Indic script letters, featuring a distinctive horizontal top line and a curved lower form. The Marchen script, which was employed in religious and royal inscriptions during the 7th to 10th centuries, is encoded in the Unicode Standard under the Marchen block, ensuring its preservation and digital accessibility for linguistic and historical research.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+11C8D |
| Version Added | 9.0 |
| Name | Marchen Letter Sa |
| Block | Marchen |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𑲍 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𑲍 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x91 0xB2 0x8D |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD807 0xDC8D |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00011C8D |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud807\udc8d |