U+0148 "ň" Latin Small Letter N with Caron Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+0148 "ň" Latin Small Letter N with Caron is a letter used in several Slavic and Baltic languages, most notably in Czech and Slovak, where it represents the palatalized sound /ɲ/ similar to the "ny" in the English word "canyon." It is formed by combining a standard lowercase "n" with a caron diacritic placed above it, and it has a corresponding uppercase form, "Ň" at code point U+0147. This character is part of the Latin Extended-A block and is essential for proper spelling in languages that utilize it, such as in the Czech word "kůň" meaning horse.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0148 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Small Letter N with Caron |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Latin Small Letter N Hacek |
| 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+030C Combining Caron |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ň |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ň |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xC5 0x88 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0148 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000148 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0148 |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Alphabetic |
| East Asian Width | Ambiguous |
| Lowercase | Yes |
| Simple Uppercase Code Point | "Ň" U+0147 Latin Capital Letter N with Caron |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "Ň" U+0147 Latin Capital Letter N with Caron |
| Uppercase Code Point | "Ň" U+0147 Latin Capital Letter N with Caron |
| Titlecase Code Point | "Ň" U+0147 Latin Capital Letter N with Caron |
| 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 |