U+09A8 "ন" Bengali Letter Na Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ন
U+09A8 "ন" Bengali Letter Na is a fundamental consonant in the Bengali script, representing the voiced dental nasal sound [n]. It is categorized among the plosive consonants in the language, specifically belonging to the dental series. This character plays a critical role in written Bengali, as well as in related languages like Assamese and the Meitei language, appearing in a wide range of common vocabulary. Its visual form consists of a curved horizontal line with a vertical stroke extending downward on the right side, and it is the nineteenth consonant in the standard Bengali alphabet order.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+09A8 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Bengali Letter Na |
| Block | Bengali |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ন |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ন |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xA6 0xA8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x09A8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000009A8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u09a8 |