U+A8AA "ꢪ" Saurashtra Letter Ma Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꢪ
U+A8AA "ꢪ" Saurashtra Letter Ma is a character from the Saurashtra script, which is historically used to write the Saurashtra language, primarily spoken in parts of Tamil Nadu, India. This specific character represents the consonant sound "ma" and is part of a Brahmi-derived abugida where each character typically denotes a consonant with an inherent vowel sound. The Saurashtra script is encoded in the Unicode block ranging from U+A880 to U+A8DF, and this letter is used for writing both modern and historical texts, including religious and literary works, helping to preserve the linguistic heritage of the Saurashtra community.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A8AA |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Saurashtra Letter Ma |
| Block | Saurashtra |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꢪ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꢪ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xA2 0xAA |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA8AA |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A8AA |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua8aa |