U+A889 "ꢉ" Saurashtra Letter Vocalic Rr Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Alphabetic
Script Saurashtra
Script Extensions Saurashtra
Indic Syllabic Category Vowel Independent
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Rotated
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter