U+A89D "ꢝ" Saurashtra Letter Ttha Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꢝ
U+A89D "ꢝ" Saurashtra Letter Ttha is a symbol from the Saurashtra script, an abugida historically used to write the Saurashtra language, primarily spoken by the Saurashtra community in parts of southern India such as Tamil Nadu. This specific character represents the aspirated retroflex stop consonant sound /ʈʰ/, similar to the "ṭh" in the English word "anthill" but with the tongue curled back. It is classified under the Saurashtra block within the Unicode Standard, encoded for digital representation and interchange of this script in modern computing environments. The letter is used in written Saurashtra to form words and convey meaning, preserving a linguistic heritage that traces its roots to the Indo-Aryan language family.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A89D |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Saurashtra Letter Ttha |
| Block | Saurashtra |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꢝ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꢝ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xA2 0x9D |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA89D |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A89D |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua89d |