U+119BC "𑦼" Nandinagari Letter Nna Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𑦼

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

Code Point U+119BC
Version Added 12.0
Name Nandinagari Letter Nna
Block Nandinagari
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

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

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 Nandinagari
Script Extensions Nandinagari
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