U+A886 "ꢆ" Saurashtra Letter U Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꢆ
U+A886 "ꢆ" Saurashtra Letter U is a character from the Saurashtra script, used historically for writing the Saurashtra language spoken in parts of Tamil Nadu, India. It represents the vowel sound "u" and is part of a Unicode block added in version 5.1 to support this script, which is derived from Brahmi and shares similarities with other South Indian scripts. This character is encoded for digital use, allowing the Saurashtra language to be represented and preserved in modern computing environments.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A886 |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Saurashtra Letter U |
| Block | Saurashtra |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꢆ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꢆ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xA2 0x86 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA886 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A886 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua886 |