Sa (kana)
Character of the Japanese writing system
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.
Like き, 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].
01Other communicative representations
| Japanese radiotelephony alphabet | Wabun code |
| 桜のサ Sakura no "Sa" |
▄▄▄ ▄ ▄▄▄ ▄ ▄▄▄ ⓘ |
| Japanese Navy Signal Flag | Japanese semaphore | Japanese manual syllabary (fingerspelling) | Braille dots-156 Japanese Braille |
- Full Braille representation
| さ / サ in Japanese Braille | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| さ / サ sa | ざ / ザ za | さあ / サー sā | ざあ / ザー zā | Other kana based on Braille さ | |||
| しゃ / シャ sha | じゃ / ジャ ja | しゃあ / シャー shā | じゃあ / ジャー jā | ||||
| Preview | さ | サ | ｻ | ざ | ザ | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unicode name | HIRAGANA LETTER SA | KATAKANA LETTER SA | HALFWIDTH KATAKANA LETTER SA | HIRAGANA LETTER ZA | KATAKANA LETTER ZA | |||||
| Encodings | decimal | hex | dec | hex | dec | hex | dec | hex | dec | hex |
| Unicode | 12373 | U+3055 | 12469 | U+30B5 | 65403 | U+FF7B | 12374 | U+3056 | 12470 | U+30B6 |
| UTF-8 | 227 129 149 | E3 81 95 | 227 130 181 | E3 82 B5 | 239 189 187 | EF BD BB | 227 129 150 | E3 81 96 | 227 130 182 | E3 82 B6 |
| Numeric character reference | さ | さ | サ | サ | ｻ | ｻ | ざ | ざ | ザ | ザ |
| Shift JIS | 130 179 | 82 B3 | 131 84 | 83 54 | 187 | BB | 130 180 | 82 B4 | 131 85 | 83 55 |
| EUC-JP | 164 181 | A4 B5 | 165 181 | A5 B5 | 142 187 | 8E BB | 164 182 | A4 B6 | 165 182 | A5 B6 |
| GB 18030 | 164 181 | A4 B5 | 165 181 | A5 B5 | 132 49 152 51 | 84 31 98 33 | 164 182 | A4 B6 | 165 182 | A5 B6 |
| EUC-KR / UHC | 170 181 | AA B5 | 171 181 | AB B5 | 170 182 | AA B6 | 171 182 | AB B6 | ||
| Big5 (non-ETEN kana) | 198 185 | C6 B9 | 199 77 | C7 4D | 198 186 | C6 BA | 199 78 | C7 4E | ||
| Big5 (ETEN / HKSCS) | 198 251 | C6 FB | 199 177 | C7 B1 | 198 252 | C6 FC | 199 178 | C7 B2 | ||
| Preview | ㋚ | 🈂 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unicode name | CIRCLED KATAKANA SA | SQUARED KATAKANA SA | ||
| Encodings | decimal | hex | dec | hex |
| Unicode | 13018 | U+32DA | 127490 | U+1F202 |
| UTF-8 | 227 139 154 | E3 8B 9A | 240 159 136 130 | F0 9F 88 82 |
| UTF-16 | 13018 | 32DA | 55356 56834 | D83C DE02 |
| Numeric character reference | ㋚ | ㋚ | 🈂 | 🈂 |
| Shift JIS (au by KDDI) | 243 90 | F3 5A | ||
| Shift JIS (SoftBank 3G) | 247 200 | F7 C8 | ||
| 7-bit JIS (au by KDDI) | 121 59 | 79 3B | ||
| GB 18030 | 129 57 210 54 | 81 39 D2 36 | 148 57 150 52 | 94 39 96 34 |
| Emoji shortcode | :sa: | |||
Sources and credits
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Images, from Wikimedia Commons:
- Hiragana さ stroke order animation.gif by Sirgazil, CC0
- Katakana サ stroke order animation.gif by Sirgazil, CC0
- さ-bw.png by Made by me, M4RC0, using Photoshop. We are making this kind of picture following the protocol of the section : Bitmap Image (PNG), CC BY-SA 2.5
- サ-bw.png by No machine-readable author provided. D.328 assumed (based on copyright claims)., CC BY-SA 3.0
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