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

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 Marchen
Script Extensions Marchen
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