U+8428 "萨" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
萨
U+8428 "萨" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that is part of the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) unified ideographs block, used primarily in writing Chinese. Pronounced "sà" in Mandarin, it is a simplified Chinese character that corresponds to the traditional character "薩". This ideograph commonly appears in loanword transliterations, such as in "菩萨" (púsà) meaning "bodhisattva" in Buddhism, or in place names like "拉萨" (Lāsà) for Lhasa, the capital of Tibet. Its structure combines the radical for grass (艹) with a phonetic component, reflecting its role in representing foreign or religious terms within the Chinese writing system.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+8428 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| Block | CJK Unified Ideographs |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 萨 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 萨 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0x90 0xA8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x8428 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00008428 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u8428 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCCCII | 27562A |
| kCangjie | TNLH |
| kCantonese | saat3 |
| kDefinition | Buddhist gods or immortals |
| kEACC | 27562A |
| kFourCornerCode | 4420 |
| kGB0 | 4088 |
| kHanYu | 53242.060 |
| kHanyuPinlu | sà(18) |
| kIICore | AG |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 53242.060 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1047.671 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-4878 |
| kTGH | 2013:2217 |
| kKangXi | 1047.671 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 5646 |
| kMandarin | sà |
| kRSUnicode | 140.8 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 592.06 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 319.110:sà |
| kTotalStrokes | 11 |
| kTraditionalVariant | "薩" U+85A9 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kUnihanCore2020 | G |
| kXHC1983 | 0981.020:sà |