U+A8A6 "ꢦ" Saurashtra Letter Pa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꢦ
U+A8A6 "ꢦ" Saurashtra Letter Pa is part of the Saurashtra block, which encodes the script historically used for writing the Saurashtra language in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. This specific character represents the consonant sound "pa," functioning as a fundamental component in the syllabic alphabet of the Saurashtra script, which is still used today for liturgical and cultural texts. The script itself is an abugida, where each character inherently carries a vowel sound, with "Pa" defaulting to the vowel "a" unless modified by diacritics.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A8A6 |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Saurashtra Letter Pa |
| Block | Saurashtra |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꢦ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꢦ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xA2 0xA6 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA8A6 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A8A6 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua8a6 |