U+A8B1 "ꢱ" Saurashtra Letter Sa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꢱ
U+A8B1 "ꢱ" Saurashtra Letter Sa is a character from the Saurashtra script, which was historically used to write the Saurashtra language, an Indo-Aryan language spoken primarily in Tamil Nadu, India. This particular letter represents the consonant sound "sa," similar to the "s" in English, and is part of a script that evolved from the Brahmi writing system. While the Saurashtra language has largely been replaced by Tamil and other languages in daily use, the script is still employed for religious texts, personal names, and cultural documentation, and its inclusion in Unicode helps preserve this unique writing heritage for digital communication and linguistic study.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A8B1 |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Saurashtra Letter Sa |
| Block | Saurashtra |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꢱ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꢱ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xA2 0xB1 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA8B1 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A8B1 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua8b1 |