U+09A3 "ণ" Bengali Letter Nna Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ণ
U+09A3 "ণ" Bengali Letter Nna is a consonant used in the Bengali script, representing a retroflex nasal sound that is distinct from the dental nasal consonant "ন". This character corresponds to the tenth consonant in the Bengali abugida and is essential for the accurate spelling and pronunciation of many words, particularly those derived from Sanskrit or other Indo-Aryan languages where retroflex consonants are common. In the Unicode standard, it is allocated to the Bengali block and requires proper rendering support from compatible fonts and software to display correctly in digital text.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+09A3 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Bengali Letter Nna |
| Block | Bengali |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ণ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ণ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xA6 0xA3 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x09A3 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000009A3 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u09a3 |