U+1004 "င" Myanmar Letter Nga Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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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 |