is a syllabogram in

Javanese script The Javanese script (natively known as ''Aksara Jawa'', ''Hanacaraka'', ''Carakan'', and ''Dentawyanjana'') is one of Indonesia's traditional scripts developed on the island of Java. The script is primarily used to write the Javanese langu ...

that represents the sounds /sɔ/ and /sa/. It is transliterated to Latin as "sa", and sometimes in Indonesian orthography as "so". It has another form (''pasangan''), which is , but represented by a single Unicode code point, U+A9B1.Campbell, George L. Compendium of the World's Languages. Vol. 1. New York: Routledge, 2000.Soemarmo, Marmo. "Javanese Script." Ohio Working Papers in Linguistics and Language Teaching 14.Winter (1995): 69-103.Daniels, Peter T and William Bright. The World's Writing Systems. Ed. Peter T Daniels and William Bright. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.

Pasangan

Its pasangan form , is one of six pasangan that are placed on the right-hand side of the previous syllable. Therefore, it is permissible to write two pasangan at the same time without having to resort to '' pangkon'' ( ꧀). The location of the ''sandhangan'' ꦶ, ꦼ, or ꦁ is on top the pasangan, not on the previous syllable. (See

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table below)

Extended form

The letter ꦱ has a '' murda'' form, which is ꦯ. Using ''cecak telu'' (), the syllable represents /ʃa/.

Mahaprana

Mahaprana letters were originally aspirated consonants used in Sanskrit and Kawi transliterations. However, there are no aspirated consonants in modern Javanese. The mahaprana form of is .

Glyphs

Unicode block

Javanese script was added to the Unicode Standard in October, 2009 with the release of version 5.2.

References

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