What ꢁ means
It marks visarga, the sign for a breath after a vowel. In Sanskrit practice, it is pronounced with audible breath.
How did Saurashtra writing develop?
T. M. Rama Rai standardized the modern Saurashtra script in the 1880s. Saurashtra belongs to the Brahmic family of scripts, used across South Asia. By the late 19th century, books in the Saurashtra language also appeared in Tamil, Telugu and Devanagari scripts.
A Saurashtra community group favored Devanagari during a movement for one common script. A 2024 update describes teaching and independent use of the Saurashtra script.
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Who writes ꢁ
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Questions people ask
1Why does ꢁ show as a box?
It needs a Saurashtra-capable font; a box means the font lacks this character's glyph.
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How to type or find ꢁ
- Also called
- visarga · Sourashtra visarga
- Search it as
- Saurashtra visarga · Saurashtra keyboard · Saurashtra script · ꢁ meaning
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
ꢁCSS
\A881Keyboard
Press H in a Saurashtra keyboard layout.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
ꢁ
HTML hex
ꢁ
CSS content
content: "\A881";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%EA%A2%81
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On screen
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Code points
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JS .length
3
UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.