U+0A19 "ਙ" Gurmukhi Letter Nga Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ਙ
U+0A19 "ਙ" Gurmukhi Letter Nga is a consonant used in the Gurmukhi script, primarily for writing the Punjabi language. It represents the velar nasal sound, similar to the 'ng' in the English word "sing," and is the fifth letter of the Gurmukhi alphabet, classified under the group of guttural consonants. Though not as common in everyday Punjabi words as some other letters, it appears in specific lexicons, often in loanwords from Sanskrit or in more formal contexts, and is essential for accurately representing the phonetic structure of the script.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0A19 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Gurmukhi Letter Nga |
| Block | Gurmukhi |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ਙ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ਙ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xA8 0x99 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0A19 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000A19 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0a19 |