What ꣘ means
It carries the value eight, like 8. Saurashtra is related to the Gujarati language. Its books have also been published in Tamil, Telugu, and Devanagari scripts; Saurashtra script also carried Sanskrit, a classical South Asian language.
The Saurashtra Primer, a beginner’s book, dates to 1876; Sourashtranadhi (1880) is the earliest surviving book printed in the script. It was modernized in the 1880s.
This is a heritage-linked script; by 2003, it also marked community identity and appeared in sacred or wedding writing.
A box in place of ꣘ means the font or app lacks Saurashtra glyph support.
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Who writes ꣘
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Questions people ask
1Why does ꣘ show as a box on some devices?
Not every system ships a font for the Saurashtra block. Where none is installed, the character shows as an empty box; adding a font such as Noto fixes it. The character itself is still correct and copies correctly.
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How to type or find ꣘
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- Saurashtra 8 · Sourashtra 8 · Saurashtri 8 · Sourashtri 8
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- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
꣘\A8D8Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.