U+0146 "ņ" Latin Small Letter N with Cedilla Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ņ
U+0146 "ņ" Latin Small Letter N with Cedilla is a modified lowercase letter n distinguished by a small hook or tail attached below its baseline, known as a cedilla. This character is primarily used in the Latvian alphabet to represent a palatalized or soft n sound, which is distinct from the standard n and appears in words like "tēviņš" meaning little father. It also occurs in other languages such as Livonian and occasionally in transliterations from Cyrillic scripts. In Unicode, it belongs to the Latin Extended-A block and has a corresponding uppercase version at U+0145 "Ņ".
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0146 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Small Letter N with Cedilla |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Latin Small Letter N Cedilla |
| Block | Latin Extended-A |
| 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+0327 Combining Cedilla |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ņ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ņ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xC5 0x86 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0146 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000146 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0146 |
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 | "Ņ" U+0145 Latin Capital Letter N with Cedilla |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "Ņ" U+0145 Latin Capital Letter N with Cedilla |
| Uppercase Code Point | "Ņ" U+0145 Latin Capital Letter N with Cedilla |
| Titlecase Code Point | "Ņ" U+0145 Latin Capital Letter N with Cedilla |
| 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 |