U+1C05 "ᰅ" Lepcha Letter Nga Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ᰅ
U+1C05 "ᰅ" Lepcha Letter Nga is part of the Lepcha script, which is used to write the Lepcha language spoken primarily in the Indian states of Sikkim and West Bengal, as well as in parts of Nepal and Bhutan. This specific character represents the velar nasal consonant sound "nga," akin to the "ng" in the English word "sing." It belongs to the Lepcha block within Unicode, which was added to support the preservation and digital representation of this endangered language. The letter is written with a distinctive curved shape and appears in both historical manuscripts and modern digital texts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1C05 |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Lepcha Letter Nga |
| Block | Lepcha |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᰅ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᰅ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xB0 0x85 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1C05 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001C05 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1c05 |