U+A8BC "ꢼ" Saurashtra Vowel Sign Vocalic L Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꢼ
U+A8BC "ꢼ" Saurashtra Vowel Sign Vocalic L is a combining diacritic mark used in the Saurashtra script, an abugida historically employed to write the Saurashtra language in southern India. This specific sign represents a vocalic L sound, a vowel-like consonant that occurs in certain Indic phonological contexts, and it is attached to a base consonant character to modify its inherent vowel, effectively indicating a syllable where the consonant is followed by a syllabic l sound. It is part of the Saurashtra block in Unicode, which was added to support the digital encoding of this script for modern computing and text processing needs.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A8BC |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Saurashtra Vowel Sign Vocalic L |
| 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 0xBC |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA8BC |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A8BC |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua8bc |