U+0A89 "ઉ" Gujarati Letter U Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ઉ
U+0A89 "ઉ" Gujarati Letter U is a character in the Gujarati script used to represent the short vowel sound /u/ as in the English word "put". It is the fifth vowel in the Gujarati abugida and appears as an independent letter when it begins a syllable. When combined with a consonant, this vowel is typically represented by a dependent vowel sign rather than the independent form. The character is encoded in the Unicode Standard to enable digital text processing and representation of the Gujarati language, which is primarily spoken in the Indian state of Gujarat.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0A89 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Gujarati Letter U |
| Block | Gujarati |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ઉ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ઉ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xAA 0x89 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0A89 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000A89 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0a89 |