U+0864 "ࡤ" Syriac Letter Malayalam Nna Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ࡤ
U+0864 "ࡤ" Syriac Letter Malayalam Nna is a rare and specialized glyph within the Syriac script block, designed to represent the retroflex nasal consonant sound found in the Malayalam language of South India. Its creation highlights the historical and linguistic connection between the Syriac alphabet, used in the liturgical traditions of Syriac Christianity, and the adaptation of that script to write non-Semitic languages. This character is not commonly used in modern digital communication but serves an important role in scholarly and liturgical contexts where text in the Syriac script must accurately convey Malayalam phonetics.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0864 |
| Version Added | 10.0 |
| Name | Syriac Letter Malayalam Nna |
| Block | Syriac Supplement |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Arabic Letter |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ࡤ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ࡤ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xA1 0xA4 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0864 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000864 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0864 |