U+014A "Ŋ" Latin Capital Letter Eng Unicode Character

U+014A "Ŋ" Latin Capital Letter Eng is a distinct letter used in several African languages, including Ganda, Fula, and many Bantu languages, to represent the velar nasal sound, similar to the "ng" in the English word "sing". Unlike the digraph "ng", this single character denotes a discrete phoneme in these languages. It also appears in the International Phonetic Alphabet to represent the same sound, though in IPA notation it is typically lowercase. The uppercase form "Ŋ" is designed to match the visual style of capital letters in the Latin alphabet, with a hook or tail extending below the baseline to differentiate it from the similar-looking capital N.

General Properties

Code Point	U+014A
Version Added	1.1
Name	Latin Capital Letter Eng
Block	Latin Extended-A
General Category	Uppercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	Ŋ
HTML Hex Encoding	Ŋ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xC5 0x8A
UTF-16 Encoding	0x014A
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000014A
C/C++/Java Escape	\u014a

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFD Quick Check	Yes
NFKC Quick Check	Yes
NFKD Quick Check	Yes
Numeric Type	None
Numeric Value	NaN
Line Break	Alphabetic
East Asian Width	Ambiguous
Uppercase	Yes
Simple Lowercase Code Point	"ŋ" U+014B Latin Small Letter Eng
Lowercase Code Point	"ŋ" U+014B Latin Small Letter Eng
Simple Case Folding	"ŋ" U+014B Latin Small Letter Eng
Case Folding	"ŋ" U+014B Latin Small Letter Eng
Cased	Yes
Changes When Casefolded	Yes
Changes When Casemapped	Yes
Changes When Lowercased	Yes
Changes When NFKC Casefolded	Yes
NFKC Casefold	"ŋ" U+014B Latin Small Letter Eng
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ŋ" U+014B Latin Small Letter Eng
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