U+A89B "ꢛ" Saurashtra Letter Nya Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꢛ
U+A89B "ꢛ" Saurashtra Letter Nya is part of the Saurashtra script, used historically to write the Saurashtra language, an Indo-Aryan language spoken primarily in Tamil Nadu, India. This character represents the palatal nasal sound, phonetically akin to the "ny" in the English word "canyon." It belongs to the Saurashtra Unicode block, encoded in version 5.1 of the Unicode Standard in 2008, and was employed in traditional manuscripts and modern digital contexts to preserve the script’s unique orthography and cultural heritage.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A89B |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Saurashtra Letter Nya |
| Block | Saurashtra |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꢛ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꢛ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xA2 0x9B |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA89B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A89B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua89b |