Sa (kana)

Sa (hiragana: さ, katakana: サ) is one of the Japanese kana, which each represent one mora. Both represent [sa]. The shapes of these kana originate from 左 and 散, respectively.

sa
hiragana
katakana
transliterationsa
translit. with dakutenza
hiragana origin
katakana origin
Man'yōgana左 佐 沙 作 者 柴 紗 草 散
Voiced Man'yōgana社 射 謝 耶 奢 装 蔵
spelling kana桜のサ
(Sakura no "sa")

Like , the hiragana character may be written with or without linking the lower line to the rest of the character.

The character may be combined with a dakuten, changing it into ざ in hiragana, ザ in katakana, and za in Hepburn romanization. The pronunciation is also changed, to [za].

Form Rōmaji Hiragana Katakana
Normal s-
(さ行 sa-gyō)
sa
saa
, sah
さあ, さぁ
さー
サア, サァ
サー
Addition dakuten z-
(ざ行 za-gyō)
za
zaa
, zah
ざあ, ざぁ
ざー
ザア, ザァ
ザー

Stroke order

Stroke order in writing sa
Stroke order in writing sa
Stroke order in writing さ
Stroke order in writing サ

Other communicative representations

  • Full Braille representation
さ / サ in Japanese Braille
さ / サ
sa
ざ / ザ
za
さあ / サー
ざあ / ザー
Other kana based on Braille
しゃ / シャ
sha
じゃ / ジャ
ja
しゃあ / シャー
shā
じゃあ / ジャー
Character information
Preview
Unicode nameHIRAGANA LETTER SAKATAKANA LETTER SAHALFWIDTH KATAKANA LETTER SAHIRAGANA LETTER ZAKATAKANA LETTER ZA
Encodingsdecimalhexdecimalhexdecimalhexdecimalhexdecimalhex
Unicode12373U+305512469U+30B565403U+FF7B12374U+305612470U+30B6
UTF-8227 129 149E3 81 95227 130 181E3 82 B5239 189 187EF BD BB227 129 150E3 81 96227 130 182E3 82 B6
Numeric character referenceささササササざざザザ
Shift JIS[1]130 17982 B3131 8483 54187BB130 18082 B4131 8583 55
EUC-JP[2]164 181A4 B5165 181A5 B5142 1878E BB164 182A4 B6165 182A5 B6
GB 18030[3]164 181A4 B5165 181A5 B5132 49 152 5184 31 98 33164 182A4 B6165 182A5 B6
EUC-KR[4] / UHC[5]170 181AA B5171 181AB B5170 182AA B6171 182AB B6
Big5 (non-ETEN kana)[6]198 185C6 B9199 77C7 4D198 186C6 BA199 78C7 4E
Big5 (ETEN / HKSCS)[7]198 251C6 FB199 177C7 B1198 252C6 FC199 178C7 B2
Character information
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Unicode nameCIRCLED KATAKANA SASQUARED KATAKANA SA
Encodingsdecimalhexdecimalhex
Unicode13018U+32DA127490U+1F202
UTF-8227 139 154E3 8B 9A240 159 136 130F0 9F 88 82
UTF-161301832DA55356 56834D83C DE02
Numeric character reference㋚㋚🈂🈂
Shift JIS (au by KDDI)[8]243 90F3 5A
Shift JIS (SoftBank 3G)[8]247 200F7 C8
7-bit JIS (au by KDDI)[9]121 5979 3B
GB 18030[3]129 57 210 5481 39 D2 36148 57 150 5294 39 96 34
Emoji shortcode[10]:sa:

References

  1. Unicode Consortium (2015-12-02) [1994-03-08]. "Shift-JIS to Unicode".
  2. Unicode Consortium; IBM. "EUC-JP-2007". International Components for Unicode.
  3. Standardization Administration of China (SAC) (2005-11-18). GB 18030-2005: Information Technology—Chinese coded character set.
  4. Unicode Consortium; IBM. "IBM-970". International Components for Unicode.
  5. Steele, Shawn (2000). "cp949 to Unicode table". Microsoft / Unicode Consortium.
  6. Unicode Consortium (2015-12-02) [1994-02-11]. "BIG5 to Unicode table (complete)".
  7. van Kesteren, Anne. "big5". Encoding Standard. WHATWG.
  8. Unicode Consortium. "Emoji Sources". Unicode Character Database.
  9. Scherer, Markus; Davis, Mark; Momoi, Kat; Tong, Darick; Kida, Yasuo; Edberg, Peter. "Emoji Symbols: Background Data—Background data for Proposal for Encoding Emoji Symbols" (PDF). UTC L2/10-132.
  10. JoyPixels. "Emoji Alpha Codes". Emoji Toolkit.
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