U+A882 "ꢂ" Saurashtra Letter A Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꢂ
U+A882 "ꢂ" Saurashtra Letter A is a glyph from the Saurashtra script, historically used to write the Saurashtra language spoken primarily in the Tamil Nadu region of India, and it represents the independent vowel sound "a," similar to the default inherent vowel in many Brahmic scripts, but in this case explicitly marking the syllable onset without a consonant. This character is part of the Saurashtra Unicode block, encoded for digital text to support the revival and preservation of this minority language, which has its own distinct alphabetic order and calligraphic style.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A882 |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Saurashtra Letter A |
| Block | Saurashtra |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꢂ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꢂ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xA2 0x82 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA882 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A882 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua882 |