U+0B23 "ଣ" Oriya Letter Nna Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+0B23 "ଣ" Oriya Letter Nna is a consonant used in the Odia script, representing a retroflex nasal sound, distinct from the dental or alveolar nasals in the language. It is primarily employed in words of Sanskrit origin and in some native Odia vocabulary, typically corresponding to the sound of "ṇ" in transliteration. This character is part of the Oriya Unicode block, which supports the writing system for the Odia language spoken mainly in the Indian state of Odisha, and its correct rendering requires appropriate font support to distinguish it from similar characters like the dental na.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0B23 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Oriya Letter Nna |
| Block | Oriya |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ଣ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ଣ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xAC 0xA3 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0B23 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000B23 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0b23 |