U+A893 "ꢓ" Saurashtra Letter Kha Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꢓ
U+A893 "ꢓ" Saurashtra Letter Kha is a character used in the Saurashtra script, which is primarily employed to write the Saurashtra language spoken by the Saurashtra community in parts of South India, particularly Tamil Nadu. This specific letter represents the aspirated consonant sound "kha" and is part of a writing system derived from the Brahmi family of scripts, historically used for religious, literary, and everyday communication. The inclusion of this character in Unicode ensures its proper digital representation and preservation, allowing modern electronic text to accurately reflect this ancient language’s distinct orthography.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A893 |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Saurashtra Letter Kha |
| Block | Saurashtra |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꢓ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꢓ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xA2 0x93 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA893 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A893 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua893 |