U+A887 "ꢇ" Saurashtra Letter Uu Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+A887 "ꢇ" Saurashtra Letter Uu is a glyph from the Saurashtra script, an abugida historically used to write the Saurashtra language, primarily spoken by the Saurashtra community in parts of South India, particularly Tamil Nadu. This character represents the vowel sound "uu" or a long "u", functioning as a standalone letter within the script’s representation of vowel phonemes. It is encoded in the Unicode Standard's Saurashtra block, which was added to support the digital preservation and modern typographic rendering of this minority language. The Saurashtra script itself evolved from the Brahmi family, and its letters are written left to right with distinctive rounded shapes, with ꢇ serving as a key component for accurately transcribing the language's long vowel system.
General Properties
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding |
ꢇ |
| HTML Hex Encoding |
ꢇ |
| UTF-8 Encoding |
0xEA 0xA2 0x87 |
| UTF-16 Encoding |
0xA887 |
| UTF-32 Encoding |
0x0000A887 |
| C/C++/Java Escape |
\ua887 |
Unicode Properties