U+A881 "ꢁ" Saurashtra Sign Visarga Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
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U+A881 "ꢁ" Saurashtra Sign Visarga is a diacritical mark used in the Saurashtra script, which is historically employed to write the Saurashtra language primarily in the Tamil Nadu region of India. This character functions as a visarga, a phonetic symbol that represents a voiceless breathy sound following a vowel, similar to a final aspirated 'h' in certain Indian languages. It is encoded in the Unicode Saurashtra block, which was added to the standard to support digital representation of this ancient script, allowing for accurate rendering and preservation of Saurashtra texts in modern computing environments.
General Properties
Code Point
U+A881
Name
Saurashtra Sign Visarga
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
ꢁ
HTML Hex Encoding
ꢁ
UTF-8 Encoding
0xEA 0xA2 0x81
UTF-16 Encoding
0xA881
UTF-32 Encoding
0x0000A881
C/C++/Java Escape
\ua881
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
Script Extensions
Saurashtra