U+0AA8 "ન" Gujarati Letter Na Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ન
U+0AA8 "ન" Gujarati Letter Na is a consonant in the Gujarati script, representing the dental nasal sound /n/. It is the 28th character of the Gujarati consonant inventory and corresponds to the Devanagari letter न, typically used as an inherent vowel carrier when no explicit vowel sign is attached, where it is pronounced with an inherent "a" sound unless modified by a matra. In the Unicode standard, it belongs to the Gujarati block (U+0A80 to U+0AFF) and is employed in writing a wide range of Gujarati and Sanskrit words, including common terms like "નમસ્તે" (namaste) meaning hello.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0AA8 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Gujarati Letter Na |
| Block | Gujarati |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ન |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ન |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xAA 0xA8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0AA8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000AA8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0aa8 |