U+11017 "๐" Brahmi Letter Nga Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+11017 "๐" Brahmi Letter Nga is a glyph representing the velar nasal consonant 'แน a' in the ancient Brahmi script, which was used across the Indian subcontinent from roughly the 3rd century BCE to the 5th century CE. This character is part of the Brahmi block in Unicode, designated for the historical writing system that is the ancestor of many modern South Asian scripts, including Devanagari, Tamil, and Thai. As a syllabic letter, it contributes to the rich epigraphic record of early inscriptions, such as those of Emperor Ashoka, and helps scholars understand the phonetic and orthographic evolution of Indic languages.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+11017 |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Brahmi Letter Nga |
| Block | Brahmi |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𑀗 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𑀗 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x91 0x80 0x97 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD804 0xDC17 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00011017 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud804\udc17 |