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

Code Point U+A892
Version Added 5.1
Name Saurashtra Letter Ka
Block Saurashtra
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

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

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 Consonant
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