U+119B2 "𑦲" Nandinagari Letter Nga Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𑦲
U+119B2 "𑦲" Nandinagari Letter Nga is a symbol from the Nandinagari script, representing the phonetic sound for the velar nasal consonant, similar to the "ng" sound in the English word "sing". This character is part of the Brahmic family of scripts and was historically used in South India, particularly in the region around present-day Karnataka, for writing Sanskrit and local Dravidian languages. It denotes a distinct phoneme in the syllabic writing system and is encoded in the Unicode Standard as part of the Nandinagari block, which was added to support the digital preservation and scholarly study of this historical script.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+119B2 |
| Version Added | 12.0 |
| Name | Nandinagari Letter Nga |
| Block | Nandinagari |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𑦲 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𑦲 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x91 0xA6 0xB2 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD806 0xDDB2 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000119B2 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud806\uddb2 |