U+0F53 "ན" Tibetan Letter Na Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ན
U+0F53 "ན" Tibetan Letter Na is the thirty-first letter of the Tibetan abugida, representing the consonant sound "na" and functioning as a core component in Tibetan writing systems for languages such as Tibetan, Dzongkha, and Ladakhi. It belongs to the Tibetan Unicode block and appears in both the Uchen (block print) and Ume (cursive) scripts, where it is used in a variety of syllables and words. Historically, it derives from the Brahmi script and shares structural similarities with related Indic letters. In Tibetan grammar, Na can serve as a radical, a subscript, or a superscript, and it plays a role in forming complex conjunct characters.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0F53 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Tibetan Letter Na |
| Block | Tibetan |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ན |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ན |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xBD 0x93 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0F53 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000F53 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0f53 |