U+A88C "ꢌ" Saurashtra Letter E Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+A88C "ꢌ" Saurashtra Letter E is a glyph from the Saurashtra script, a Brahmi-derived alphasyllabary historically used to write the Saurashtra language in parts of southern India. This specific character represents the vowel sound "e" in the Saurashtra writing system, functioning as an independent letter that appears at the beginning of syllables or words where no preceding consonant is attached. It is encoded in the Unicode Standard's Saurashtra block, which was added to support the digital representation of this minority language and its unique script, helping to preserve and facilitate written communication for modern Saurashtra speakers.

General Properties

Code Point U+A88C
Version Added 5.1
Name Saurashtra Letter E
Block Saurashtra
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ꢌ
HTML Hex Encoding ꢌ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEA 0xA2 0x8C
UTF-16 Encoding 0xA88C
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000A88C
C/C++/Java Escape \ua88c

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