U+A895 "ꢕ" Saurashtra Letter Gha Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꢕ
U+A895 "ꢕ" Saurashtra Letter Gha is a glyph from the Saurashtra script, an abugida historically used to write the Saurashtra language, which is spoken primarily in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. This specific character represents the aspirated consonant sound "gha," corresponding to the voiced velar plosive with a breathy release, and it is one of the letters in the Saurashtra alphabet that was once actively used for religious and literary texts. While the script is now largely reserved for ceremonial and scholarly contexts, the inclusion of this character in Unicode ensures that digital representation and preservation of the Saurashtra language remains possible for linguistic research and cultural heritage efforts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A895 |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Saurashtra Letter Gha |
| Block | Saurashtra |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꢕ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꢕ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xA2 0x95 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA895 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A895 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua895 |