U+A880 "ꢀ" Saurashtra Sign Anusvara Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꢀ
U+A880 "ꢀ" Saurashtra Sign Anusvara is a diacritical mark used in the Saurashtra script, which is employed to write the Saurashtra language spoken in parts of South India. This anusvara character indicates nasalization of the preceding vowel or consonant, similar to the nuqtaless dot used in other Brahmic scripts for denoting a nasal sound or a homorganic nasal stop. In the Saurashtra writing system, it is typed after a consonant or vowel character to modify its pronunciation, playing a role in accurately representing the phonetics of the language in digital text.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A880 |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Saurashtra Sign Anusvara |
| Block | Saurashtra |
| General Category | Spacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꢀ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꢀ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xA2 0x80 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA880 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A880 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua880 |