U+A88B "ꢋ" Saurashtra Letter Vocalic Ll Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꢋ
U+A88B "ꢋ" Saurashtra Letter Vocalic Ll is a specific glyph from the Saurashtra script, an abugida historically used to write the Saurashtra language in parts of southern India. This character represents a syllabic sound, specifically a vocalic form of the consonant "L" that functions as a vowel, akin to the vocalic "L" found in some other Brahmic scripts like Sanskrit. It is part of the Saurashtra block in Unicode, which was added to support the digital representation of this liturgical and domestic script. The character is typically used in scholarly or religious contexts to transcribe ancient texts and maintain the phonetic nuances of the Saurashtra language.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A88B |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Saurashtra Letter Vocalic Ll |
| Block | Saurashtra |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꢋ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꢋ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xA2 0x8B |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA88B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A88B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua88b |