U+0C19 "ఙ" Telugu Letter Nga Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ఙ
U+0C19 "ఙ" Telugu Letter Nga is a symbol from the Telugu abugida, representing the velar nasal sound, similar to the "ng" in the English word "sing." It is the fifth letter in the Telugu consonant inventory and corresponds phonetically to the Sanskrit and other Indic script character for the same sound. This character is used primarily in writing the Telugu language, where it appears in native words and as part of conjunct forms, though it is less common in everyday vocabulary compared to other consonants.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0C19 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Telugu Letter Nga |
| Block | Telugu |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ఙ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ఙ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xB0 0x99 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0C19 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000C19 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0c19 |