U+0B99 "ங" Tamil Letter Nga Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ங
U+0B99 "ங" Tamil Letter Nga is the fifth consonant in the Tamil abugida, representing the velar nasal sound /ŋ/, akin to the "ng" in the English word "sing". It is classified under the Tamil script block in Unicode and is used primarily in the Tamil language, where it appears as a standalone character or as a consonant base for vowel diacritics to form compound syllables. Historically, this letter is less frequent in modern Tamil than in other Dravidian languages, but it remains an essential component of the script for accurate phonetic representation, particularly in certain loanwords and classical texts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0B99 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Tamil Letter Nga |
| Block | Tamil |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ங |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ங |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xAE 0x99 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0B99 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000B99 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0b99 |