U+A820 "ꠠ" Syloti Nagri Letter Rro Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Alphabetic
Script Syloti Nagri
Script Extensions Syloti Nagri
Indic Syllabic Category Consonant
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Rotated
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter