Sa (kana)

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sa
hiragana katakana
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")

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].

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[]

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

• Computer encodings