What ꢇ means
It writes a long “uu” vowel at the start of a syllable. Saurashtra uses a Brahmic script: consonant letters carry a default vowel, and attached signs change it. ꢇ is the independent vowel letter.
Saurashtra is a language spoken in southern India and related to Gujarati. Published Saurashtra material is recorded in Madras from 1880; the modernized script was developed in the 1880s and simplified earlier spellings that joined consonants into complex groups.
By the late 19th century, books in Saurashtra appeared in Telugu, Tamil, Devanagari, and the native script. The language can therefore appear in several writing systems.
Why does ꢇ look wrong on screen?
Your font may not include Saurashtra characters. Without a suitable font, you may see an empty box or an unrelated fallback shape. Older and modernized Saurashtra conventions can also look different in different fonts.
How can I type Saurashtra letter Uu?
Choose an input method that supports the Saurashtra script. Some phonetic keyboards map uu to this vowel; an Inscript layout provides a keyboard for sustained Saurashtra text entry.
Technical and language-specific: ꢇ reads as part of Saurashtra writing, not as a general-purpose mark.
Alone, ꢇ gives the vowel sound; the surrounding Saurashtra text tells you which word is meant.
Drift: As of 2026, Saurashtra is most often written in Tamil script, while Telugu, Devanagari, Latin, and its native script also appear in teaching and publishing.
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1Why does ꢇ show as a box on some devices?
Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.
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ꢇ\A887uu enters this long vowel, as listed in 2026.Codes and encoding1 code points
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