U+0C19 "ఙ" Telugu Letter Nga Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Alphabetic
Script Telugu
Script Extensions Telugu
Indic Syllabic Category Consonant
Indic Conjunct Break Consonant
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Rotated
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter