U+0D9E "ඞ" Sinhala Letter Kantaja Naasikyaya Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ඞ
U+0D9E "ඞ" Sinhala Letter Kantaja Naasikyaya is a character from the Sinhala script used to write the Sinhala language in Sri Lanka, where it represents a specific retroflex nasal sound, typically transliterated as "ṇa". Despite its traditional linguistic function, this character gained widespread recognition outside of its original language context through its resemblance to the faces of the Among Us video game characters, leading to its use as a meme and a symbol in online communities during the game's surge in popularity starting in 2020. This cultural phenomenon has made the character more well known to a global audience than its original purpose as a phonetic element in Sinhala writing.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0D9E |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Sinhala Letter Kantaja Naasikyaya |
| Block | Sinhala |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ඞ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ඞ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xB6 0x9E |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0D9E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000D9E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0d9e |