U+0DB1 "න" Sinhala Letter Dantaja Nayanna Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
න
U+0DB1 "න" Sinhala Letter Dantaja Nayanna is a fundamental consonant in the Sinhala script, representing the dental nasal sound /n/ articulated with the tongue against the teeth, which distinguishes it from the retroflex nasal represented by a different character. It belongs to the Sinhala block of Unicode, encoded for use in digital text processing to preserve the language's precise phonetic and orthographic traditions. This letter is employed extensively in written Sinhala, appearing in common words such as "නම" (name) and "නුවර" (city), and its usage underscores the script's historical evolution from the Brahmi writing system.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0DB1 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Sinhala Letter Dantaja Nayanna |
| Block | Sinhala |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | න |
| HTML Hex Encoding | න |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xB6 0xB1 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0DB1 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000DB1 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0db1 |