U+A896 "ꢖ" Saurashtra Letter Nga Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꢖ
U+A896 "ꢖ" Saurashtra Letter Nga is a specific character used in the Saurashtra script, which is an abugida historically employed to write the Saurashtra language spoken primarily in Tamil Nadu, India. This character represents the velar nasal consonant sound "nga," similar to the 'ng' in the English word "sing," and it belongs to a Unicode block dedicated to preserving and enabling digital representation of the Saurashtra script. Its inclusion allows for the accurate encoding of texts in this endangered language, supporting linguistic documentation and modern communication among Saurashtra speakers.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A896 |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Saurashtra Letter Nga |
| Block | Saurashtra |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꢖ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꢖ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xA2 0x96 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA896 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A896 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua896 |