U+0D28 "ന" Malayalam Letter Na Unicode Character

U+0D28 "ന" Malayalam Letter Na is the basic consonant representing the dental nasal sound /n/ in the Malayalam script, a Brahmic abugida used primarily for writing the Malayalam language of southern India. It is the first consonant in the Malayalam varnamala, corresponding to the tenth consonant in the Sanskrit-derived Devanagari order, and serves as a foundational element for creating more complex conjunct forms by combining with vowel signs or other consonants. This character occupies the numeric code point of decimal 3368 in Unicode and is essential for everyday vocabulary as well as literary and formal texts, acting as a key building block for words related to concepts like time, place, and human attributes.