U+A8AE "ꢮ" Saurashtra Letter Va Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+A8AE "ꢮ" Saurashtra Letter Va is a graphical symbol from the Saurashtra script, an alphasyllabary historically used to write the Saurashtra language, primarily spoken by the Saurashtra community in parts of southern India. This character represents the consonant sound "va" and is encoded in the Unicode Standard's Saurashtra block, which was added in version 5.1 in 2008 to facilitate digital representation and preservation of the script. Unlike Devanagari or other South Asian scripts, Saurashtra vowels are typically written as independent letters or as diacritics attached to a consonant base, but the standalone consonant characters like "ꢮ" carry an inherent vowel sound unless modified. The character is used in modern digital contexts, including text processing and font rendering, to support the written form of the Saurashtra language in cultural and religious documents.
General Properties
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding |
ꢮ |
| HTML Hex Encoding |
ꢮ |
| UTF-8 Encoding |
0xEA 0xA2 0xAE |
| UTF-16 Encoding |
0xA8AE |
| UTF-32 Encoding |
0x0000A8AE |
| C/C++/Java Escape |
\ua8ae |
Unicode Properties