U+A8BD "ꢽ" Saurashtra Vowel Sign Vocalic Ll Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+A8BD "ꢽ" Saurashtra Vowel Sign Vocalic Ll is a combining diacritical mark used in the Saurashtra script, an abugida historically employed to write the Saurashtra language in parts of southern India. This specific vowel sign represents a vocalic double L sound, functioning as a vowel modifier that attaches to a consonant base to indicate the pronunciation of a syllabic, or vowel-like, L. It is part of the Saurashtra block in Unicode, which was encoded to support the digital preservation and modern use of this script, and its addition helps ensure that traditional texts can be accurately represented in electronic form.

General Properties

Code Point U+A8BD
Version Added 5.1
Name Saurashtra Vowel Sign Vocalic Ll
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 0xBD
UTF-16 Encoding 0xA8BD
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000A8BD
C/C++/Java Escape \ua8bd

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Combining Mark
Script Saurashtra
Script Extensions Saurashtra
Indic Syllabic Category Vowel Dependent
Indic Positional Category Right
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Other Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Rotated
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Spacing Mark
Word Break Extend
Sentence Break Extend