U+A881 "ꢁ" Saurashtra Sign Visarga Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꢁ
U+A881 "ꢁ" Saurashtra Sign Visarga is a diacritical mark used in the Saurashtra script, which is historically employed to write the Saurashtra language primarily in the Tamil Nadu region of India. This character functions as a visarga, a phonetic symbol that represents a voiceless breathy sound following a vowel, similar to a final aspirated 'h' in certain Indian languages. It is encoded in the Unicode Saurashtra block, which was added to the standard to support digital representation of this ancient script, allowing for accurate rendering and preservation of Saurashtra texts in modern computing environments.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A881 |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Saurashtra Sign Visarga |
| 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 0x81 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA881 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A881 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua881 |