U+A8BB "ꢻ" Saurashtra Vowel Sign Vocalic Rr Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꢻ
U+A8BB "ꢻ" Saurashtra Vowel Sign Vocalic Rr is a combining diacritical mark used in the Saurashtra script, an abugida historically employed to write the Saurashtra language spoken in parts of Tamil Nadu, India. This specific vowel sign represents a vocalic retroflex lateral flap, a syllabic consonant sound akin to a vowel-like "rr" or "ṛ", and is attached to a consonant base character to indicate that the following "vocalic r" follows the consonant, altering pronunciation without an inherent vowel. As part of the Saurashtra block, it helps preserve a unique phonetic feature not found in many other Brahmic scripts, and it appears alongside other vowel signs in texts related to Saurashtra literature and inscriptions.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A8BB |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Saurashtra Vowel Sign Vocalic Rr |
| 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 0xBB |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA8BB |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A8BB |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua8bb |