U+0147 "Ň" Latin Capital Letter N with Caron Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
Ň
U+0147 "Ň" Latin Capital Letter N with Caron is a distinctive letter in the Latin alphabet that represents a palatalized or soft "n" sound, similar to the "ny" in the English word "canyon." It is formed by combining a standard capital N with a caron diacritic, which is a small inverted chevron placed above the letter. This character is used in several Central and Eastern European languages, most notably in Czech and Slovak, where it appears in words like "kůň" meaning horse, and in the romanization of certain Slavic languages. It also occurs in the orthography of some Sámi and other minority languages, serving as a crucial component for accurate phonetic representation and spelling.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0147 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Capital Letter N with Caron |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Latin Capital Letter N Hacek |
| 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+030C Combining Caron |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ň |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ň |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xC5 0x87 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0147 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000147 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0147 |
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 | "ň" U+0148 Latin Small Letter N with Caron |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ň" U+0148 Latin Small Letter N with Caron |
| Simple Case Folding | "ň" U+0148 Latin Small Letter N with Caron |
| Case Folding | "ň" U+0148 Latin Small Letter N with Caron |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ň" U+0148 Latin Small Letter N with Caron |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ň" U+0148 Latin Small Letter N with Caron |
| 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 |