U+014B "ŋ" Latin Small Letter Eng Unicode Character

U+014B "ŋ" Latin Small Letter Eng is a distinct letter in the Latin alphabet that represents a velar nasal sound, as heard at the end of the English word "sing" or in the middle of "finger." It is widely used in the orthographies of various languages, including Sami, Ganda, and many African and Indigenous American languages, as well as in the International Phonetic Alphabet to transcribe this specific consonant. The character derives historically from a ligature of the letter "n" with a hook, and its lowercase form is unique in that it is the only Latin letter to have a capital counterpart that is simply a larger version of itself, though the capital "Ŋ" is less commonly used.

General Properties

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

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ŋ
HTML Hex Encoding	ŋ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xC5 0x8B
UTF-16 Encoding	0x014B
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000014B
C/C++/Java Escape	\u014b

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
Lowercase	Yes
Simple Uppercase Code Point	"Ŋ" U+014A Latin Capital Letter Eng
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"Ŋ" U+014A Latin Capital Letter Eng
Uppercase Code Point	"Ŋ" U+014A Latin Capital Letter Eng
Titlecase Code Point	"Ŋ" U+014A Latin Capital Letter Eng
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