U+006E "n" Latin Small Letter N Unicode Character

U+006E "n" Latin Small Letter N is the standard lowercase representation of the fourteenth letter of the modern English alphabet. As part of the Basic Latin block, its encoding occupies the same code point as the ASCII value for 'n', ensuring universal compatibility across virtually all digital systems. This character is a fundamental building block in written English and many other languages, representing a voiced alveolar nasal sound. It appears frequently in common words, in grammatical functions such as marking plurals and verb forms, and serves as a critical component in scientific notation and mathematics, where it often denotes an unspecified integer value.

General Properties

Code Point	U+006E
Version Added	1.1
Name	Latin Small Letter N
Block	Basic Latin
General Category	Lowercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	n
HTML Hex Encoding	n
UTF-8 Encoding	0x6E
UTF-16 Encoding	0x006E
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000006E
C/C++/Java Escape	\u006e

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFD Quick Check	Yes
NFKC Quick Check	Yes
NFKD Quick Check	Yes
Numeric Type	None
Numeric Value	NaN
Line Break	Alphabetic
East Asian Width	Narrow
Lowercase	Yes
Simple Uppercase Code Point	"N" U+004E Latin Capital Letter N
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"N" U+004E Latin Capital Letter N
Uppercase Code Point	"N" U+004E Latin Capital Letter N
Titlecase Code Point	"N" U+004E Latin Capital Letter N
Cased	Yes
Changes When Casemapped	Yes
Changes When Titlecased	Yes
Changes When Uppercased	Yes
Script	Latin
Script Extensions	Latin
Indic Syllabic Category	Other
ID Start	Yes
XID Start	Yes
ID Continue	Yes
XID Continue	Yes
Alphabetic	Yes
Vertical Orientation	Rotated
Grapheme Base	Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break	Other
Word Break	Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break	Lower