U+A8A1 "ꢡ" Saurashtra Letter Ta Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꢡ
U+A8A1 "ꢡ" Saurashtra Letter Ta is a character in the Saurashtra script, which was historically used to write the Saurashtra language in parts of southern India, particularly Tamil Nadu. This specific character represents the sound "ta" and belongs to the block of Saurashtra consonants. The script itself is derived from the Brahmi family and is primarily used today in religious and cultural contexts by the Saurashtra community, though modern digitization efforts have preserved it through Unicode encoding for digital communication and text processing.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A8A1 |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Saurashtra Letter Ta |
| Block | Saurashtra |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꢡ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꢡ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xA2 0xA1 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA8A1 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A8A1 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua8a1 |