U+0F4E "ཎ" Tibetan Letter Nna Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+0F4E "ཎ" Tibetan Letter Nna is a specific consonant used in the Tibetan script, representing a retroflex nasal sound that is distinct from the regular dental nasal "n". This letter corresponds to the retroflex "ṇa" found in Sanskrit and is essential for accurately transcribing Sanskrit loanwords and mantras into Tibetan, where it appears as one of the thirty basic consonants in the Tibetan alphasyllabary. Its pronunciation involves curling the tongue back to the palate, setting it apart from other nasal sounds in the language, and it is typically transliterated as "ṇ" in romanization systems.

General Properties

Code Point U+0F4E
Version Added 2.0
Name Tibetan Letter Nna
Unicode 1.0 Name Tibetan Letter Reversed Na
Block Tibetan
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ཎ
HTML Hex Encoding ཎ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE0 0xBD 0x8E
UTF-16 Encoding 0x0F4E
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00000F4E
C/C++/Java Escape \u0f4e

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Alphabetic
Script Tibetan
Script Extensions Tibetan
Indic Syllabic Category Consonant
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Rotated
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter