U+A8AD "ꢭ" Saurashtra Letter La Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꢭ
U+A8AD "ꢭ" Saurashtra Letter La is a glyph used in the Saurashtra script, which is an abugida historically employed to write the Saurashtra language spoken mainly in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. This particular character represents the consonant sound "la" and is part of the Saurashtra block in Unicode that was added to support digital encoding of this minority language's writing system. The character "ꢭ" is rendered with a distinctive curled shape, and when combined with vowel signs, it can produce different syllables, helping to preserve and facilitate the modern use of this traditional script.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A8AD |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Saurashtra Letter La |
| Block | Saurashtra |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꢭ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꢭ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xA2 0xAD |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA8AD |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A8AD |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua8ad |