U+092E "म" Devanagari Letter Ma Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
म
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 |