U+A8B8 "ꢸ" Saurashtra Vowel Sign U Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꢸ
U+A8B8 "ꢸ" Saurashtra Vowel Sign U is a combining diacritical mark used in the Saurashtra script, which historically writes the Saurashtra language spoken in parts of Gujarat, India. This vowel sign represents the short 'u' sound and is placed below a consonant character to modify its inherent vowel, forming syllables like 'ku' or 'gu'. It is part of the Saurashtra block in Unicode, encoded to support digital preservation and rendering of this Brahmic-derived script, which is important for cultural and linguistic heritage work alongside fonts like Noto Sans Saurashtra.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A8B8 |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Saurashtra Vowel Sign U |
| Block | Saurashtra |
| General Category | Spacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꢸ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꢸ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xA2 0xB8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA8B8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A8B8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua8b8 |