U+A893 "ꢓ" Saurashtra Letter Kha Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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

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