U+A890 "ꢐ" Saurashtra Letter Oo Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꢐ
U+A890 "ꢐ" Saurashtra Letter Oo is a glyph used in the Saurashtra script, an abugida historically employed to write the Saurashtra language spoken in the Tamil Nadu region of India. This specific character represents the vowel sound "oo" (like the "oo" in "boot") and belongs to the set of independent vowel letters in the script, distinct from dependent vowel signs that attach to consonants. Encoded in the Unicode Saurashtra block (U+A880 to U+A8DF), it forms an essential part of digital text processing for this endangered language, enabling its preservation and use in modern computing environments.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A890 |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Saurashtra Letter Oo |
| Block | Saurashtra |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꢐ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꢐ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xA2 0x90 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA890 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A890 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua890 |