U+A8BF "ꢿ" Saurashtra Vowel Sign Ee Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+A8BF "ꢿ" Saurashtra Vowel Sign Ee is a combining diacritical mark used in the Saurashtra script, a writing system primarily employed for the Saurashtra language spoken in parts of southern India. When applied to a consonant character in the Saurashtra block, this vowel sign modifies the inherent vowel to produce the sound of a long "ee" as in "see." As a dependent vowel sign, it is placed below the base consonant and is essential for accurately representing the phonetic structure and vowel length in written Saurashtra.

General Properties

Code Point U+A8BF
Version Added 5.1
Name Saurashtra Vowel Sign Ee
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 0xBF
UTF-16 Encoding 0xA8BF
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000A8BF
C/C++/Java Escape \ua8bf

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