U+A89F "ꢟ" Saurashtra Letter Ddha Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꢟ
U+A89F "ꢟ" Saurashtra Letter Ddha is a specific glyph representing the voiced retroflex aspirated stop consonant in the Saurashtra script, an abugida historically used to write the Saurashtra language primarily spoken in parts of Tamil Nadu, India. It corresponds to the sound similar to the "dha" in English words like "adhere" but with the tongue curled back in the mouth. This character is part of the Saurashtra block in the Unicode Standard, which was added to support the digital encoding and rendering of this traditional script for modern computing needs.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A89F |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Saurashtra Letter Ddha |
| Block | Saurashtra |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꢟ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꢟ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xA2 0x9F |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA89F |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A89F |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua89f |