U+09A8 "ন" Bengali Letter Na Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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

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 Bengali
Script Extensions Bengali
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