U+A89B "ꢛ" Saurashtra Letter Nya Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
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U+A89B "ꢛ" Saurashtra Letter Nya is part of the Saurashtra script, used historically to write the Saurashtra language, an Indo-Aryan language spoken primarily in Tamil Nadu, India. This character represents the palatal nasal sound, phonetically akin to the "ny" in the English word "canyon." It belongs to the Saurashtra Unicode block, encoded in version 5.1 of the Unicode Standard in 2008, and was employed in traditional manuscripts and modern digital contexts to preserve the script’s unique orthography and cultural heritage.
General Properties
Code Point
U+A89B
Name
Saurashtra Letter Nya
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
ꢛ
HTML Hex Encoding
ꢛ
UTF-8 Encoding
0xEA 0xA2 0x9B
UTF-16 Encoding
0xA89B
UTF-32 Encoding
0x0000A89B
C/C++/Java Escape
\ua89b
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
Script Extensions
Saurashtra