U+0DAB "ණ" Sinhala Letter Muurdhaja Nayanna Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ණ
U+0DAB "ණ" Sinhala Letter Muurdhaja Nayanna is a consonant in the Sinhala script, used primarily to represent a retroflex nasal sound, similar to the 'n' sound in the English word "under" but produced with the tongue curled back against the roof of the mouth. It is classified as a Muurdhaja or retroflex letter, distinguishing it from the dental nasal letter "න", and appears in the Unicode Sinhala block as one of the fundamental characters for writing the Sinhala language spoken in Sri Lanka. This character is essential for correctly spelling and pronouncing many native Sinhala words, especially those with historical or etymological roots in the Indo-Aryan language family.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0DAB |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Sinhala Letter Muurdhaja Nayanna |
| Block | Sinhala |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ණ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ණ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xB6 0xAB |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0DAB |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000DAB |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0dab |