U+0A94 "ઔ" Gujarati Letter Au Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+0A94 "ઔ" Gujarati Letter Au is the fourteenth vowel in the Gujarati abugida, representing the diphthong sound /əu/ as in the English word "cow" or in the Gujarati word "ઔષધ" (aushadh, meaning medicine). It is formed by combining the vowel sign "ઔ" with a consonant, and it appears as a distinct character in written Gujarati, primarily used in vocabulary derived from Sanskrit and in transliterations of foreign words. In the Unicode standard, this character falls within the Gujarati script block and is encoded for digital text processing to ensure proper representation and rendering of the language in modern computing systems.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0A94 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Gujarati Letter Au |
| Block | Gujarati |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ઔ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ઔ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xAA 0x94 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0A94 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000A94 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0a94 |