U+11493 "ð‘’“" Tirhuta Letter Nga Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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U+11493 "ð‘’“" Tirhuta Letter Nga is a glyph representing the velar nasal sound /Å‹/, akin to the 'ng' in the English word "sing," within the Tirhuta script. This script, historically used to write the Maithili language primarily in the Mithila region of Bihar, India, and parts of Nepal, is an abugida where each character inherently contains a vowel sound. The letter Nga is the third consonant in the Tirhuta alphabet and follows the letter Kha, serving as an essential component in writing a variety of native and loanwords in Maithili. Despite its rich historical and cultural significance, the Tirhuta script, and therefore this character, is now rarely used in everyday writing, having been largely supplanted by the Devanagari script, though efforts exist to preserve and revitalize it.

General Properties

Code Point U+11493
Version Added 7.0
Name Tirhuta Letter Nga
Block Tirhuta
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 𑒓
HTML Hex Encoding 𑒓
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x91 0x92 0x93
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD805 0xDC93
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00011493
C/C++/Java Escape \ud805\udc93

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 Alphabetic
Script Tirhuta
Script Extensions Tirhuta
Indic Syllabic Category 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 Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter