U+A88D "ꢍ" Saurashtra Letter Ee Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꢍ
U+A88D "ꢍ" Saurashtra Letter Ee is a glyph used in the Saurashtra script, an abugida historically employed to write the Saurashtra language spoken in parts of Tamil Nadu, India. This character represents the long vowel sound /eː/, similar to the "ay" in "say" but held longer, and it functions as an independent vowel letter in the script. Its inclusion in the Unicode Standard ensures that digital text in Saurashtra can be accurately rendered and exchanged across modern computing systems, supporting efforts to preserve and revitalize the language.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A88D |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Saurashtra Letter Ee |
| Block | Saurashtra |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꢍ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꢍ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xA2 0x8D |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA88D |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A88D |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua88d |