U+0923 "ण" Devanagari Letter Nna Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ण
U+0923 "ण" Devanagari Letter Nna is a retroflex nasal consonant used primarily in the Hindi, Marathi, Nepali, and Sanskrit languages, representing a sound distinct from the dental "न" (na). It is formed by curling the tongue back to touch the roof of the mouth, and it often appears in words where a retroflex nasal follows a retroflex consonant, such as in "गण" (gana, meaning group or math) or "कण" (kana, meaning particle or atom). In modern Hindi, its use is more common in formal or Sanskrit-derived vocabulary, while in everyday speech it is sometimes replaced by the dental "न" in certain dialects.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0923 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Devanagari Letter Nna |
| Block | Devanagari |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ण |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ण |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xA4 0xA3 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0923 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000923 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0923 |