Sa (kana)

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Character of the Japanese writing system

|  Hiragana
|  Katakana

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Transliteration| sa
Translit. with dakuten| za
Hiragana origin| 左
Katakana origin| 散
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")
kana gojūon

| wa| ra| ya| ma| ha| na| ta| sa| ka| a

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wi| ri| (yi)| mi| hi| ni| chi| shi| ki| i
(wu)| ru| yu| mu| fu| nu| tsu| su| ku| u
we| re| (ye)| me| he| ne| te| se| ke| e
wo| ro| yo| mo| ho| no| to| so| ko| o
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Kana modifiers and marks

* sokuonfu (gemination)
* yōon (palatalization)
* chōonpu (vowel lengthener)
* Iteration marks
* dakuten/handakuten (voiced & semi-voiced marks)

Multi-moraic kana

* iu
* kashiko
* koto
* sama
* shite
* toki
* tomo
* nari
* mairasesoro
* yori

* v
* t
* e

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].

Form  | Rōmaji | Hiragana | Katakana

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Normal s-
(さ行 sa-gyō)  | sa | さ  | サ
saa
sā | さあ, さぁ
さー  | サア, サァ

Addition dakuten z-
(ざ行 za-gyō)  | za | ざ  | ザ
zaa
zā | ざあ, ざぁ
ざー  | ザア, ザァ

## Stroke order

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Stroke order in writing さ 2, 3  | Stroke order in writing サ 3

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Stroke order in writing さ Stroke order in writing サ

## Other communicative representations

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Japanese radiotelephony alphabet | Wabun code

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桜のサ
Sakura no "Sa" |  ▄▄▄ ▄ ▄▄▄ ▄ ▄▄▄ ⓘ

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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

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* Computer encodings

Character information  Preview | さ | サ | ｻ | ざ | ザ

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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 | &#12373; | &#x3055; | &#12469; | &#x30B5; | &#65403; | &#xFF7B; | &#12374; | &#x3056; | &#12470; | &#x30B6;
Shift JIS[1] | 130 179 | 82 B3 | 131 84 | 83 54 | 187 | BB | 130 180 | 82 B4 | 131 85 | 83 55
EUC-JP[2] | 164 181 | A4 B5 | 165 181 | A5 B5 | 142 187 | 8E BB | 164 182 | A4 B6 | 165 182 | A5 B6
GB 18030[3] | 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[4] / UHC[5] | 170 181 | AA B5 | 171 181 | AB B5 |  |  | 170 182 | AA B6 | 171 182 | AB B6
Big5 (non-ETEN kana)[6] | 198 185 | C6 B9 | 199 77 | C7 4D |  |  | 198 186 | C6 BA | 199 78 | C7 4E
Big5 (ETEN / HKSCS)[7] | 198 251 | C6 FB | 199 177 | C7 B1 |  |  | 198 252 | C6 FC | 199 178 | C7 B2
Character information  Preview | ㋚ | 🈂

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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 | &#13018; | &#x32DA; | &#127490; | &#x1F202;
Shift JIS (au by KDDI)[8] |  |  | 243 90 | F3 5A
Shift JIS (SoftBank 3G)[8] |  |  | 247 200 | F7 C8
7-bit JIS (au by KDDI)[9] |  |  | 121 59 | 79 3B
GB 18030[3] | 129 57 210 54 | 81 39 D2 36 | 148 57 150 52 | 94 39 96 34
Emoji shortcode[10] |  | :sa:

Look up さ, ざ, サ, or ザ in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

## References

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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. ^ a b 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. ^ a b 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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