U+A8AB "ꢫ" Saurashtra Letter Ya Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꢫ
U+A8AB "ꢫ" Saurashtra Letter Ya is a glyph from the Saurashtra script, which was historically used to write the Saurashtra language spoken by communities in parts of southern India, particularly Tamil Nadu. This specific character represents the consonant sound "ya" and is part of a modern digital encoding effort to preserve and support the script, which has experienced a revival in writing and typography. The character allows for accurate digital representation of Saurashtra text, enabling its use in Unicode compliant software and communication platforms.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A8AB |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Saurashtra Letter Ya |
| Block | Saurashtra |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꢫ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꢫ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xA2 0xAB |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA8AB |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A8AB |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua8ab |