U+A899 "ꢙ" Saurashtra Letter Ja Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꢙ
U+A899 "ꢙ" Saurashtra Letter Ja is a character from the Saurashtra script, an abugida historically used to write the Saurashtra language primarily spoken by the Saurashtra community in parts of Tamil Nadu, India. This particular character represents the consonant sound "ja" in the language and is part of the Saurashtra block of the Unicode standard, which was added in version 5.1 in 2008 to support the digital representation of this endangered script. Visually, it is a distinct glyph that combines a curved shape with a top horizontal stroke, typical of the script's calligraphic traditions.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A899 |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Saurashtra Letter Ja |
| Block | Saurashtra |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꢙ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꢙ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xA2 0x99 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA899 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A899 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua899 |