U+1159C "๐" Siddham Letter Nna Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1159C "๐" Siddham Letter Nna is a graphic symbol used in the Siddham script, an ancient abugida historically employed in East Asia for writing Sanskrit and other sacred Buddhist texts, particularly within the esoteric Shingon tradition of Japan. This specific character represents the retroflex nasal consonant sound "แนa," distinguishing it from the dental N by the curling back of the tongue in articulation, and it embodies a crucial phonetic distinction in Sanskrit. Its elegant, flowing form is part of the script's distinctive aesthetic, which is preserved today primarily in ritual calligraphy, temple inscriptions, and scholarly efforts to digitize and study medieval Buddhist manuscripts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1159C |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Siddham Letter Nna |
| Block | Siddham |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𑖜 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𑖜 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x91 0x96 0x9C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD805 0xDD9C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001159C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud805\udd9c |