U+0923 "ण" Devanagari Letter Nna Unicode Character

U+0923 "ण" Devanagari Letter Nna is a retroflex nasal consonant used primarily in the Hindi, Marathi, Nepali, and Sanskrit languages, representing a sound distinct from the dental "न" (na). It is formed by curling the tongue back to touch the roof of the mouth, and it often appears in words where a retroflex nasal follows a retroflex consonant, such as in "गण" (gana, meaning group or math) or "कण" (kana, meaning particle or atom). In modern Hindi, its use is more common in formal or Sanskrit-derived vocabulary, while in everyday speech it is sometimes replaced by the dental "न" in certain dialects.