U+1A14 "ᨔ" Buginese Letter Sa Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+1A14 "ᨔ" Buginese Letter Sa is a glyph from the Buginese script, historically used to write the Buginese and Makassar languages on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi. This character represents the syllable "sa" and belongs to a Brahmic-derived abugida where each consonant implies an inherent vowel sound, primarily used in traditional manuscripts, court records, and modern cultural contexts. Its inclusion in the Unicode Standard ensures digital preservation and interoperability for scholarly work, linguistic documentation, and cultural heritage projects involving the Bugis people.

General Properties

Code Point U+1A14
Version Added 4.1
Name Buginese Letter Sa
Block Buginese
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ᨔ
HTML Hex Encoding ᨔ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE1 0xA8 0x94
UTF-16 Encoding 0x1A14
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00001A14
C/C++/Java Escape \u1a14

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 Buginese
Script Extensions Buginese
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