U+A89F "ꢟ" Saurashtra Letter Ddha Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Alphabetic
Script Saurashtra
Script Extensions Saurashtra
Indic Syllabic Category Consonant
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Rotated
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter