U+0B9E "ஞ" Tamil Letter Nya Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ஞ
U+0B9E "ஞ" Tamil Letter Nya is a character in the Tamil abugida, representing the palatal nasal consonant sound, approximately akin to the "ny" in the English word "canyon." It is the tenth letter of the Tamil alphabet, classified as a soft consonant or mellinum letter. In Tamil phonology and grammar, it holds a distinct role, often appearing at the beginning of words or in compound forms, and it is integral to writing various native and borrowed terms in the Tamil script, which is used primarily in Tamil Nadu, Sri Lanka, and by the Tamil diaspora.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0B9E |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Tamil Letter Nya |
| Block | Tamil |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ஞ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ஞ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xAE 0x9E |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0B9E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000B9E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0b9e |