U+A8A2 "ꢢ" Saurashtra Letter Tha Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꢢ
U+A8A2 "ꢢ" Saurashtra Letter Tha is a character used in the Saurashtra script, which is specifically designed for writing the Saurashtra language, an Indo-Aryan language spoken by communities in parts of southern India, particularly Tamil Nadu. This letter represents the aspirated voiceless dental stop sound, similar to the "th" in the English word "thumb", and is part of the consonantal inventory of the script. The Saurashtra script itself is derived from the Brahmi family of scripts and is primarily employed in religious, literary, and cultural contexts, though its usage has declined in favour of other scripts like Tamil or Devanagari in modern communication.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A8A2 |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Saurashtra Letter Tha |
| Block | Saurashtra |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꢢ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꢢ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xA2 0xA2 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA8A2 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A8A2 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua8a2 |