Yannis Reference Library

Practical guides for everyday Nepali tasks.

Clear reference notes, conversion tables, and worked examples to help you get accurate results with Nepali text, dates, land units, bullion prices, postal codes, and bank directories.

Five Essential Guides

Each guide pairs directly with an interactive tool on Yannis and explains the real-world rules used in Nepal.

Devanagari ScriptB.S. CalendarRopani & Bigha

Guide 01 / Writing

How to type Nepali with English letters

Learn phonetic vowel rules, retroflex vs dental consonants, conjunct letters (क्ष, त्र, ज्ञ), and purna biram punctuation for fast Roman Nepali typing.

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Guide 02 / Fonts

Preeti and Unicode: what changes?

Understand why legacy Preeti documents store Latin ASCII codes, when to use UTF-8 Unicode, and how to convert documents cleanly in both directions.

Read font guide

Guide 03 / Dates

How to convert Nepali (B.S.) and English (A.D.) dates

See why subtracting 56 years and 8 months fails, how Bikram Sambat month lengths vary between 29 and 32 days, and how to verify official records.

Read date guide

Guide 04 / Land Area

Ropani, Aana, Bigha, and Kattha explained

Master Hill and Terai land measurement systems, avoid the decimal trap on lalpurja records, and reference exact square-foot and square-metre equivalents.

Read land measurement guide

Guide 05 / Market Rates

How to read a Nepal gold-price page

Understand published FENEGOSIDA rates, Chhapawal (24K) vs Tejabi and 22 KT purity grades, Tola (11.6638g) and Lal weights, and how jewellers calculate jarti and jyala.

Read gold price guide

Jump straight to an interactive tool or directory

Postal Directory

Nepal Postal Code Finder

Search 753 local-level 5-digit codes and 7-digit ward codes.

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Bank Directory

Nepal Bank & SWIFT Finder

Search 6,263 NCHL-IPS branches, SWIFT codes, and routing values.

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All Utilities

Browse All 15 Tools

Open the complete directory of writing, date, land, and market tools.

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