U+1004 "င" Myanmar Letter Nga Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+1004 "င" Myanmar Letter Nga is the fourteenth character in the Myanmar script, representing the voiced velar nasal sound /ŋ/, similar to the "ng" in the English word "sing." It functions as both a consonant and a standalone letter in the Burmese language, where it is frequently used in initial and final positions of syllables, and also appears in the Pali and Mon languages as part of the broader Indic-derived script family. In digital contexts, this character is encoded in the Myanmar block of Unicode, enabling its use in modern text processing and rendering on computers and mobile devices.

General Properties

Code Point U+1004
Version Added 3.0
Name Myanmar Letter Nga
Block Myanmar
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding င
HTML Hex Encoding င
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE1 0x80 0x84
UTF-16 Encoding 0x1004
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00001004
C/C++/Java Escape \u1004

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 Complex Context Dependent (South East Asian)
Script Myanmar
Script Extensions Myanmar
Indic Syllabic Category Consonant
Indic Conjunct Break 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 Other
Sentence Break OLetter