U+A820 "ꠠ" Syloti Nagri Letter Rro Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꠠ
U+A820 "ꠠ" Syloti Nagri Letter Rro is a specific glyph within the Syloti Nagri script, which is historically used to write the Sylheti language, primarily spoken in the Sylhet region of Bangladesh and parts of northeastern India. This letter represents a retroflex flap or tap consonant sound, similar to the "r" sound in some South Asian languages but articulated with the tongue curled back toward the palate. As part of the Syloti Nagri block, it plays a crucial role in accurately transcribing the phonetic inventory of Sylheti, distinguishing it from other scripts like Bengali-Assamese.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A820 |
| Version Added | 4.1 |
| Name | Syloti Nagri Letter Rro |
| Block | Syloti Nagri |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꠠ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꠠ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xA0 0xA0 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA820 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A820 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua820 |