U+A896 SAURASHTRA LETTER NGA

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Decimal / Nº
43158
General Category
Script
Bidi Category
Left-To-Right
East Asian Width
no designated width
Combining Class
Not Reordered
Decomposition
not a composition

Character Details

The Unicode character U+A896, officially named SAURASHTRA LETTER NGA, was introduced in Unicode version 5.1. It is part of the Saurashtra block, which belongs to the Basic Multilingual plane.

Categorized technically as a Other Letter, this character typically falls under the Saur script. In terms of text layout and rendering, the glyph is not a composition and has no designated width in East Asian typography. When placed in bidirectional text, it behaves as an Left-To-Right character. Its visual representation remains not mirrored regardless of the reading direction.

Representations & Encodings

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43158 Copied!
UTF-8 EA A2 96 Copied!
UTF-16 A8 96 Copied!
UTF-32 00 00 A8 96 Copied!
URL-Quoted %EA%A2%96 Copied!
HTML hex reference ꢖ Copied!
RFC 5137 \u'A896' Copied!
Bash and Zsh (inside echo -e) \uA896 Copied!
C and C++ \ua896 Copied!
C# \ua896 Copied!
CSS \00A896 Copied!
Excel =UNICHAR(43158) Copied!
Go \ua896 Copied!
JavaScript \uA896 Copied!
Modern JavaScript (since ES6) \u{a896} Copied!
JSON \uA896 Copied!
Java \uA896 Copied!
Lua \u{A896} Copied!
Matlab char(43158) Copied!
Perl \x{A896} Copied!
PHP \u{a896} Copied!
PostgreSQL U&'\A896' Copied!
PowerShell `u{A896} Copied!
Python \ua896 Copied!
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