U+11D2A "ð‘´ª" Masaram Gondi Letter Ssa Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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U+11D2A "ð‘´ª" Masaram Gondi Letter Ssa is a specific letter from the Masaram Gondi script, which was designed in the early 20th century by Munshi Mangal Singh Masaram to write the Gondi language spoken by the Gondi people in central India. This character represents the retroflex sibilant sound "Ssa," which is distinct from the more common dental or palatal s sounds in other scripts. The Masaram Gondi script is an alphasyllabary, meaning that each consonant letter inherently carries a vowel sound, and the letter Ssa is used in writing words of Gondi origin or for borrowed terms requiring that particular phonetic quality. Despite the script's historical and cultural significance to the Gond community, its usage has declined in modern times as the Latin and Devanagari scripts have become more prevalent for writing Gondi.

General Properties

Code Point U+11D2A
Version Added 10.0
Name Masaram Gondi Letter Ssa
Block Masaram Gondi
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 𑴪
HTML Hex Encoding 𑴪
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x91 0xB4 0xAA
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD807 0xDD2A
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00011D2A
C/C++/Java Escape \ud807\udd2a

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 Masaram Gondi
Script Extensions Masaram Gondi
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