U+A892 "ꢒ" Saurashtra Letter Ka Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+A892 "ꢒ" Saurashtra Letter Ka is a character used in the Saurashtra script, an alphasyllabary historically employed for writing the Saurashtra language, which is spoken by the Saurashtra community primarily in parts of South India such as Tamil Nadu. This specific character represents the consonant sound "ka" and functions as an independent consonant form in the script, which is derived from the Brahmi family of scripts and displays similarities to other South and Southeast Asian writing systems. While the Saurashtra script has seen a decline in everyday use in favor of Tamil or Devanagari scripts, it is still used in cultural and religious contexts, and the inclusion of this character in Unicode ensures its preservation and digital accessibility for modern computing needs.
General Properties
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding |
ꢒ |
| HTML Hex Encoding |
ꢒ |
| UTF-8 Encoding |
0xEA 0xA2 0x92 |
| UTF-16 Encoding |
0xA892 |
| UTF-32 Encoding |
0x0000A892 |
| C/C++/Java Escape |
\ua892 |
Unicode Properties