U+A883 "ꢃ" Saurashtra Letter Aa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꢃ
U+A883 "ꢃ" Saurashtra Letter Aa is part of the Saurashtra script block, specifically representing the vowel sound "aa" (a long /aː/). Belonging to a script historically used to write the Saurashtra language, primarily spoken by the Saurashtra community in Tamil Nadu, India, this character functions as an independent vowel that cannot be combined as a vowel sign. Its inclusion in the Unicode Standard, encoded in version 5.1 in 2008, ensures digital preservation and support for the language's traditional writing system, which has roots in the Brahmic family of scripts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A883 |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Saurashtra Letter Aa |
| Block | Saurashtra |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꢃ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꢃ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xA2 0x83 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA883 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A883 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua883 |