U+0DB1 "න" Sinhala Letter Dantaja Nayanna Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
Source: Browser Default
U+0DB1 "න" Sinhala Letter Dantaja Nayanna is a fundamental consonant in the Sinhala script, representing the dental nasal sound /n/ articulated with the tongue against the teeth, which distinguishes it from the retroflex nasal represented by a different character. It belongs to the Sinhala block of Unicode, encoded for use in digital text processing to preserve the language's precise phonetic and orthographic traditions. This letter is employed extensively in written Sinhala, appearing in common words such as "නම" (name) and "නුවර" (city), and its usage underscores the script's historical evolution from the Brahmi writing system.
General Properties
Code Point
U+0DB1
Name
Sinhala Letter Dantaja Nayanna
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
න
HTML Hex Encoding
න
UTF-8 Encoding
0xE0 0xB6 0xB1
UTF-16 Encoding
0x0DB1
UTF-32 Encoding
0x00000DB1
C/C++/Java Escape
\u0db1
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
Script Extensions
Sinhala