U+00F1 "ñ" Latin Small Letter N with Tilde Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+00F1 "ñ" Latin Small Letter N with Tilde is a distinct letter used primarily in the Spanish alphabet, where it represents a palatal nasal sound similar to the "ny" in "canyon" and is considered a separate character for sorting and indexing purposes. It also appears in other languages such as Galician, Basque, and various indigenous languages of the Americas, and it can be encoded using the standard method of adding a combining tilde (U+0303) to a base letter n, though the precomposed form U+00F1 is more commonly used for compatibility with legacy systems and text.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+00F1 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Small Letter N with Tilde |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Latin Small Letter N Tilde |
| Block | Latin-1 Supplement |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "n" U+006E Latin Small Letter N "̃" U+0303 Combining Tilde |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ñ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ñ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xC3 0xB1 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x00F1 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000000F1 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u00f1 |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Alphabetic |
| Lowercase | Yes |
| Simple Uppercase Code Point | "Ñ" U+00D1 Latin Capital Letter N with Tilde |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "Ñ" U+00D1 Latin Capital Letter N with Tilde |
| Uppercase Code Point | "Ñ" U+00D1 Latin Capital Letter N with Tilde |
| Titlecase Code Point | "Ñ" U+00D1 Latin Capital Letter N with Tilde |
| 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 |