U+A990 "ꦐ" Javanese Letter Ka Sasak Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꦐ
U+A990 "ꦐ" Javanese Letter Ka Sasak is a glyph used to represent a specific consonant sound in the Javanese script, particularly adapted for writing the Sasak language of Lombok, Indonesia. Unlike the standard Javanese letter "ka," this character includes an additional diacritical mark or structural variation that distinguishes it as a distinct phoneme within the Sasak orthography. It belongs to the Javanese block of Unicode, which encodes a variety of characters for writing Javanese, Sundanese, and related languages, and its inclusion allows for accurate digital representation of Sasak texts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A990 |
| Version Added | 5.2 |
| Name | Javanese Letter Ka Sasak |
| Block | Javanese |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꦐ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꦐ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xA6 0x90 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA990 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A990 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua990 |