U+A897 "ꢗ" Saurashtra Letter Ca Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꢗ
U+A897 "ꢗ" Saurashtra Letter Ca is a character from the Saurashtra script, used historically to write the Saurashtra language, which is spoken by the Saurashtra community primarily in parts of Tamil Nadu, India. This specific letter represents the consonant sound "ca," akin to the English "ch" in "church," and is part of a larger set of Saurashtra characters encoded in the Unicode Standard to preserve and digitally represent this endangered language's writing system. The script itself derives from the Brahmi family and features a distinct, rounded appearance, with U+A897 used in texts such as religious works, educational materials, and modern digital communications within the community.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A897 |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Saurashtra Letter Ca |
| Block | Saurashtra |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꢗ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꢗ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xA2 0x97 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA897 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A897 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua897 |