U+A8A4 "ꢤ" Saurashtra Letter Dha Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꢤ
U+A8A4 "ꢤ" Saurashtra Letter Dha is a glyph representing a voiced aspirated dental consonant in the Saurashtra script, an abugida historically used to write the Saurashtra language, primarily spoken by the Saurashtra community in parts of South India such as Tamil Nadu. This character corresponds to the sound similar to the "dh" in the English word "adhere" and is part of the Saurashtra Unicode block, which was added to the Unicode Standard to support the digital preservation and revival of this endangered script. The letter Dha is essential for writing many native Saurashtra words and is often used in religious, cultural, and educational texts, helping to maintain a unique linguistic heritage tied to the region of Saurashtra in Gujarat.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A8A4 |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Saurashtra Letter Dha |
| Block | Saurashtra |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꢤ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꢤ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xA2 0xA4 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA8A4 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A8A4 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua8a4 |