U+0928 "न" Devanagari Letter Na Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
न
U+0928 "न" Devanagari Letter Na is a fundamental consonant in the Devanagari script, representing the voiced dental nasal sound /n/ as in the English word “name.” It is the twenty-sixth character in the standard Devanagari syllabary and is widely used in languages such as Hindi, Marathi, Nepali, and Sanskrit. As a base consonant, "न" can combine with various vowel diacritics to form different syllables, such as "ना" (naa) or "नि" (ni). It belongs to the dental group of consonants, articulated with the tongue against the teeth, and is distinct from the retroflex nasal character ण due to its place of articulation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0928 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Devanagari Letter Na |
| Block | Devanagari |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | न |
| HTML Hex Encoding | न |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xA4 0xA8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0928 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000928 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0928 |