U+A8A3 "ꢣ" Saurashtra Letter Da Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꢣ
U+A8A3 "ꢣ" Saurashtra Letter Da is a glyph from the Saurashtra script, which was historically used to write the Saurashtra language, an Indo-Aryan language spoken primarily by the Saurashtra community in parts of Tamil Nadu, India. This specific character represents the consonant sound "da" and is part of the Saurashtra block in Unicode, encoded to support the digital preservation and modern use of the script for writing and text processing. The Saurashtra script is a Brahmi derived abugida, where each consonant letter carries an inherent vowel sound that can be modified by diacritical marks, and this letter is typically used in religious, cultural, and linguistic contexts to document the Saurashtra language.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A8A3 |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Saurashtra Letter Da |
| Block | Saurashtra |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꢣ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꢣ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xA2 0xA3 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA8A3 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A8A3 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua8a3 |