U+092E "म" Devanagari Letter Ma Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+092E "म" Devanagari Letter Ma is a consonant in the Devanagari script that represents the sound /m/ as in the English word "mother". It is a fundamental character used primarily in languages such as Hindi, Marathi, Nepali, and Sanskrit, where it often appears in common words like "मम" (mama, meaning “mine” or “my”) and “माता” (mātā, meaning “mother”). The character can be combined with vowel diacritics to form syllables like “मा” (mā) or “मि” (mi), and it is also used as a base for forming conjunct consonants, such as in the sequence “म्म” (mma). As a core element of the Devanagari syllabary, it plays a critical role in writing and encoding text for millions of speakers across South Asia.

General Properties

Code Point U+092E
Version Added 1.1
Name Devanagari Letter Ma
Block Devanagari
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding म
HTML Hex Encoding म
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE0 0xA4 0xAE
UTF-16 Encoding 0x092E
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000092E
C/C++/Java Escape \u092e

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Alphabetic
Script Devanagari
Script Extensions Devanagari
Indic Syllabic Category Consonant
Indic Conjunct Break Consonant
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Rotated
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter