U+0929 "ऩ" Devanagari Letter Nnna Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ऩ
U+0929 "ऩ" Devanagari Letter Nnna is a rare and specialized character used in the Devanagari script to represent a retroflex nasal sound, distinct from the more common dental nasal represented by "न". This character is primarily employed in transliterating certain Dravidian languages, such as Tamil and Malayalam, into the Devanagari writing system, where it captures the precise pronunciation of words containing the retroflex nasal that does not naturally occur in standard Sanskrit or Hindi. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures accurate digital representation for linguistic and academic purposes, preserving phonetic nuances in written texts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0929 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Devanagari Letter Nnna |
| Block | Devanagari |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "न" U+0928 Devanagari Letter Na "़" U+093C Devanagari Sign Nukta |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ऩ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ऩ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xA4 0xA9 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0929 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000929 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0929 |