U+A889 "ꢉ" Saurashtra Letter Vocalic Rr Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꢉ
U+A889 "ꢉ" Saurashtra Letter Vocalic Rr is a character from the Saurashtra script, which is used to write the Saurashtra language, primarily spoken by the Saurashtra community in parts of South India. This specific letter represents a vocalic or syllabic form of the retroflex "R" sound, akin to the vocalic "ṛ" found in other Indic scripts, and it is used in the orthography to denote a vowel-like pronunciation of the retroflex consonant. As part of the Saurashtra block, which was added to the Unicode standard in version 5.1 in 2008, this character helps preserve and digitize the unique phonetic and written traditions of the language.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A889 |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Saurashtra Letter Vocalic Rr |
| Block | Saurashtra |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꢉ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꢉ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xA2 0x89 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA889 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A889 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua889 |