U+A8D9 "꣙" Saurashtra Digit Nine Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
꣙
U+A8D9 "꣙" Saurashtra Digit Nine is part of the Saurashtra script block, which is used to write the Saurashtra language, primarily spoken in the Indian state of Gujarat and historically in neighboring regions. This digit represents the numerical value nine and shares the decimal numeral system structure found in other Indic scripts, such as Devanagari and Tamil. It is encoded in Unicode version 5.1, released in 2008, to support the digital representation of the Saurashtra language for modern computing and text processing.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A8D9 |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Saurashtra Digit Nine |
| Block | Saurashtra |
| General Category | Decimal Number |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꣙ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꣙ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xA3 0x99 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA8D9 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A8D9 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua8d9 |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | Decimal |
| Numeric Value | 9 |
| Line Break | Numeric |
| Script | Saurashtra |
| Script Extensions | Saurashtra |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Number |
| ID Continue | Yes |
| XID Continue | Yes |
| Vertical Orientation | Rotated |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Numeric |
| Sentence Break | Numeric |