U+A8AF "ꢯ" Saurashtra Letter Sha Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꢯ
U+A8AF "ꢯ" Saurashtra Letter Sha is a specific character from the Saurashtra script, which was historically used to write the Saurashtra language spoken by the Saurashtra community in parts of South India. This character represents the consonant sound "sha" similar to the English "sh" in "ship" and is part of the Saurashtra Unicode block, which was added to the standard to preserve and digitally support this minority language's writing system. The script itself is a Brahmi derived abugida, and this particular letter is used in religious texts, modern publications, and digital communications among Saurashtra speakers, helping to maintain cultural identity and literacy.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A8AF |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Saurashtra Letter Sha |
| Block | Saurashtra |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꢯ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꢯ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xA2 0xAF |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA8AF |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A8AF |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua8af |