U+0C1E "ఞ" Telugu Letter Nya Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+0C1E "ఞ" Telugu Letter Nya is a distinctive glyph in the Telugu abugida that represents the palatal nasal consonant sound, roughly equivalent to the "ny" sound in the English word "canyon." It is the tenth consonant in the Telugu script and is used primarily in native Telugu vocabulary as well as in loanwords, particularly from Sanskrit, where it appears in words like "ఞాన" (jnana, meaning knowledge). Unlike some other Indic scripts, the Telugu character is written with a unique curved and looped shape, and it serves as a building block in the syllabic writing system, combining with vowel diacritics to form complex syllables. In linguistic terms, this letter is classified as a sonorant and is produced by pressing the middle of the tongue against the hard palate while allowing air to pass through the nasal cavity.

General Properties

Code Point U+0C1E
Version Added 1.1
Name Telugu Letter Nya
Block Telugu
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ఞ
HTML Hex Encoding ఞ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE0 0xB0 0x9E
UTF-16 Encoding 0x0C1E
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00000C1E
C/C++/Java Escape \u0c1e

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