U+0BB8 "ஸ" Tamil Letter Sa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
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U+0BB8 "ஸ" Tamil Letter Sa is a consonant in the Tamil script that represents the voiceless alveolar fricative sound [s], originally introduced to write Sanskrit and English loanwords, as the native Tamil inventory had historically shifted this sound to a different articulation. It occupies a position within the vowel chart's supplementary consonants and is encoded in the Tamil Unicode block, playing a key role in modern Tamil writing for accurately rendering borrowed terms and names from other languages.
General Properties
Code Point
U+0BB8
Name
Tamil Letter Sa
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
ஸ
HTML Hex Encoding
ஸ
UTF-8 Encoding
0xE0 0xAE 0xB8
UTF-16 Encoding
0x0BB8
UTF-32 Encoding
0x00000BB8
C/C++/Java Escape
\u0bb8
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
Script Extensions
Tamil