U+091E "ञ" Devanagari Letter Nya Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ञ
U+091E "ञ" Devanagari Letter Nya is a consonant in the Devanagari script used primarily for writing languages such as Hindi, Sanskrit, and Marathi, where it represents the palatal nasal sound, akin to the "ny" in the English word "canyon." It is the tenth consonant of the Devanagari abugida and appears in the sequence of velar, palatal, retroflex, dental, and labial stops, specifically classified under the palatal series. This character is encoded in the Unicode Standard under the Devanagari block and is utilized in various linguistic contexts, including transliteration and digital text representation, where it maintains its phonetic value across multiple Indic languages.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+091E |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Devanagari Letter Nya |
| Block | Devanagari |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ञ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ञ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xA4 0x9E |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x091E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000091E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u091e |