U+0D23 "ണ" Malayalam Letter Nna Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ണ
U+0D23 "ണ" Malayalam Letter Nna is a character in the Malayalam script used primarily to write the Dravidian language of Malayalam, predominantly spoken in the Indian state of Kerala and the union territory of Lakshadweep. It represents a retroflex nasal consonant sound, distinct from the dental and alveolar nasals in Malayalam, and is an essential component of the script's abugida system where each character inherently carries a vowel sound unless modified by diacritics. This letter is encoded in Unicode version 1.1 under the Malayalam block and is used in standard orthography for words like "കണ്ണ്" (kaṇṇu), meaning "eye."
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0D23 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Malayalam Letter Nna |
| Block | Malayalam |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ണ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ണ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xB4 0xA3 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0D23 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000D23 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0d23 |