U+A8B0 "ꢰ" Saurashtra Letter Ssa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꢰ
U+A8B0 "ꢰ" Saurashtra Letter Ssa is a character from the Saurashtra script, a Brahmi-derived abugida historically used to write the Saurashtra language, primarily spoken by the Saurashtra community in parts of Tamil Nadu, India. This specific character represents the retroflex sibilant sound "Sa" (similar to the English "sh" but with the tongue curled back), and it is classified under the Saurashtra (U+A8A0–U+A8FF) block of the Unicode Standard. The Saurashtra script was encoded in Unicode version 5.1 in 2008, enabling digital representation and preservation of the language for modern computing, though its usage today is largely limited to religious texts and community efforts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A8B0 |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Saurashtra Letter Ssa |
| Block | Saurashtra |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꢰ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꢰ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xA2 0xB0 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA8B0 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A8B0 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua8b0 |