U+119BC "𑦼" Nandinagari Letter Nna Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+119BC "𑦼" Nandinagari Letter Nna is a specific character used in the Nandinagari script, an ancient Brahmi-derived writing system historically employed to write Sanskrit and other languages in parts of South India, particularly in Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh. This character represents the retroflex nasal consonant sound "Nna" and was added as part of the Unicode Standard to support digital representation and preservation of historical texts and manuscripts written in Nandinagari, which fell out of common use but remains crucial for scholarly studies of inscriptions and religious documents. Its inclusion helps ensure that the unique orthography of the script, with its distinct letterforms and phonetic values, can be accurately encoded and transmitted in modern computing environments.
General Properties
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding |
𑦼 |
| HTML Hex Encoding |
𑦼 |
| UTF-8 Encoding |
0xF0 0x91 0xA6 0xBC |
| UTF-16 Encoding |
0xD806 0xDDBC |
| UTF-32 Encoding |
0x000119BC |
| C/C++/Java Escape |
\ud806\uddbc |
Unicode Properties