U+0149 "ʼn" Latin Small Letter N Preceded by Apostrophe Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ʼn
U+0149 "ʼn" Latin Small Letter N Preceded by Apostrophe is a historic typographic ligature used in Afrikaans, representing the word "en" (meaning "and") when pronounced as a single syllable, such as in the phrase "ʼn man" (a man). It was encoded for compatibility with legacy text, but its use is now deprecated in modern Unicode, which recommends writing it as a separate apostrophe followed by the letter "n" (’n) to avoid processing issues, as the single character can be confused with a punctuation mark. The character is also found in older Dutch and other languages where it served a similar abbreviated function.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0149 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Small Letter N Preceded by Apostrophe |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Latin Small Letter Apostrophe N |
| Block | Latin Extended-A |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Compat |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ʼ" U+02BC Modifier Letter Apostrophe "n" U+006E Latin Small Letter N |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ʼn |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ʼn |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xC5 0x89 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0149 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000149 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0149 |