U+0CA3 "ಣ" Kannada Letter Nna Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ಣ
U+0CA3 "ಣ" Kannada Letter Nna is a character used in the Kannada script, primarily for the Dravidian languages of southern India, specifically representing a retroflex nasal consonant sound. Visually, it resembles a curved or looped form distinct from the dental "ನ" and is employed in writing words like "ಕಣ" (kana) meaning a particle or unit. This character is encoded in the Unicode Standard as part of the Kannada block, with a UTF-8 hex representation of E0 B2 A3 over three bytes. Its inclusion ensures that digital text systems can accurately represent and exchange this essential phonetic element of Kannada orthography.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0CA3 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Kannada Letter Nna |
| Block | Kannada |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ಣ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ಣ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xB2 0xA3 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0CA3 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000CA3 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0ca3 |