U+0A8F "એ" Gujarati Letter E Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
એ
U+0A8F "એ" Gujarati Letter E is a vowel in the Gujarati script, representing the sound [e] as in the English word "pay". It appears as an independent character when it begins a syllable or is used in isolation, and it can also combine with consonants as a dependent vowel sign in its matra form (઼) to modify the inherent vowel of a consonant. This character is part of the Gujarati block in Unicode, encoded at the position U+0A8F, and is essential for writing the Gujarati language, which is spoken primarily in the Indian state of Gujarat.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0A8F |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Gujarati Letter E |
| Block | Gujarati |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | એ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | એ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xAA 0x8F |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0A8F |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000A8F |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0a8f |