U+A894 "ꢔ" Saurashtra Letter Ga Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+A894 "ꢔ" Saurashtra Letter Ga is a character from the Saurashtra script, which was historically used to write the Saurashtra language in parts of southern India, particularly Tamil Nadu, and represents the consonant sound "ga" as in "garden". This script is encoded in Unicode version 5.1 and is primarily used today in religious and cultural contexts, as the language itself is largely ceremonial outside of older texts. The character forms part of a larger set of Saurashtra letters that follow an abugida structure, where inherent vowels are modified by diacritics, making "ꢔ" a basic building block for spelling many Saurashtra words.

General Properties

Code Point U+A894
Version Added 5.1
Name Saurashtra Letter Ga
Block Saurashtra
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ꢔ
HTML Hex Encoding ꢔ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEA 0xA2 0x94
UTF-16 Encoding 0xA894
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000A894
C/C++/Java Escape \ua894

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