U+0A8A "ઊ" Gujarati Letter Uu Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ઊ
U+0A8A "ઊ" Gujarati Letter Uu is a vowel in the Gujarati script, representing the long vowel sound "ū" as in the English word "boot". It is written as a distinct independent character when beginning a syllable, and it is the long counterpart to the short vowel "ઉ". This character is used in the Gujarati language, which is spoken primarily in the Indian state of Gujarat, and it forms a fundamental part of the writing system for spelling words that require the elongated "u" sound.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0A8A |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Gujarati Letter Uu |
| Block | Gujarati |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ઊ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ઊ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xAA 0x8A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0A8A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000A8A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0a8a |