U+11396 "ð‘Ž–" Tulu-Tigalari Letter Nga Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ð‘Ž–
U+11396 "ð‘Ž–" Tulu-Tigalari Letter Nga is an alphasyllabic script character used primarily to write the Tulu language, representing the velar nasal sound equivalent to "ng" in English. It belongs to the Tulu-Tigalari block, a script historically employed in the coastal region of Karnataka, India, for religious and literary manuscripts. This specific letter corresponds to the fifth consonant in the Tulu-Tigalari abugida and is visually distinct from other Brahmic-derived scripts, reflecting unique stylistic developments in the region.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+11396 |
| Version Added | 16.0 |
| Name | Tulu-Tigalari Letter Nga |
| Block | Tulu-Tigalari |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𑎖 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𑎖 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x91 0x8E 0x96 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD804 0xDF96 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00011396 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud804\udf96 |