U+A8A9 "ꢩ" Saurashtra Letter Bha Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꢩ
U+A8A9 "ꢩ" Saurashtra Letter Bha is a specific character used in the Saurashtra script, an abugida historically employed to write the Saurashtra language spoken primarily in the Tamil Nadu region of India. This character represents the aspirated bilabial consonant sound "bha," akin to the "bh" in the English word "abhor," and it is part of a larger set of Unicode blocks dedicated to encoding ancient and minority scripts for digital text representation. Its inclusion in the Unicode Standard ensures that the Saurashtra language can be accurately rendered and preserved in modern computing environments, supporting cultural heritage and linguistic studies.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A8A9 |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Saurashtra Letter Bha |
| Block | Saurashtra |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꢩ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꢩ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xA2 0xA9 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA8A9 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A8A9 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua8a9 |