U+0A89 "ઉ" Gujarati Letter U Unicode Character

U+0A89 "ઉ" Gujarati Letter U is a character in the Gujarati script used to represent the short vowel sound /u/ as in the English word "put". It is the fifth vowel in the Gujarati abugida and appears as an independent letter when it begins a syllable. When combined with a consonant, this vowel is typically represented by a dependent vowel sign rather than the independent form. The character is encoded in the Unicode Standard to enable digital text processing and representation of the Gujarati language, which is primarily spoken in the Indian state of Gujarat.