U+0B19 "ଙ" Oriya Letter Nga Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ଙ
U+0B19 "ଙ" Oriya Letter Nga is a consonant in the Odia script, representing the velar nasal sound /ŋ/, similar to the 'ng' in the English word "sing". It is used in the Odia language, primarily spoken in the Indian state of Odisha, and appears in the native alphabet as the fifth character in the consonant series. This letter is an integral part of writing words that require this specific nasal phoneme, and it follows the standard Oriya vowel notation where inherent vowels or diacritics modify its pronunciation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0B19 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Oriya Letter Nga |
| Block | Oriya |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ଙ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ଙ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xAC 0x99 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0B19 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000B19 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0b19 |