U+11319 "๐" Grantha Letter Nga Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+11319 "๐" Grantha Letter Nga is a character from the Grantha script, an ancient writing system historically used in South India and Sri Lanka to write Sanskrit and Tamil. It represents the velar nasal sound "nga," corresponding to the sound of the letter "แน " in transliterated Sanskrit. This character is part of a block added to Unicode in version 7.0 to support the Grantha script, which is primarily associated with religious and scholarly texts from the medieval period. Its inclusion in the Unicode Standard helps preserve digital accessibility to this historical script.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+11319 |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Grantha Letter Nga |
| Block | Grantha |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𑌙 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𑌙 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x91 0x8C 0x99 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD804 0xDF19 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00011319 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud804\udf19 |