U+0143 "Ń" Latin Capital Letter N with Acute Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
Ń
U+0143 "Ń" Latin Capital Letter N with Acute is a precomposed letter used in several languages, including Polish, where it represents a palatalized or "soft" N sound, similar to the "ny" in the English word "canyon." It also appears in other Slavic languages like Kashubian and Upper Sorbian, as well as in some African orthographies such as those for the Nateni language. This character is formed by combining a standard Latin capital N with an acute accent placed above it, which indicates a specific phonetic value distinct from a plain N. In Unicode, it falls within the Latin Extended-A block and is encoded as a single character to ensure proper text processing and display across different systems and fonts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0143 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Capital Letter N with Acute |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Latin Capital Letter N Acute |
| Block | Latin Extended-A |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "N" U+004E Latin Capital Letter N "́" U+0301 Combining Acute Accent |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ń |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ń |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xC5 0x83 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0143 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000143 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0143 |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Alphabetic |
| Uppercase | Yes |
| Simple Lowercase Code Point | "ń" U+0144 Latin Small Letter N with Acute |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ń" U+0144 Latin Small Letter N with Acute |
| Simple Case Folding | "ń" U+0144 Latin Small Letter N with Acute |
| Case Folding | "ń" U+0144 Latin Small Letter N with Acute |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ń" U+0144 Latin Small Letter N with Acute |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ń" U+0144 Latin Small Letter N with Acute |
| 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 | Upper |