U+019D "Ɲ" Latin Capital Letter N with Left Hook Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+019D "Ɲ" Latin Capital Letter N with Left Hook is a specialized typographic symbol primarily used in certain African orthographies, such as those for the Mende and Bissa languages, where it represents a palatal nasal sound, similar to the Spanish "ñ" or the "ny" in "canyon." Its distinctive design features the standard Latin capital letter N with a small hook added to the left side of the uppercase form, distinguishing it visually from its lowercase counterpart, U+0272 "ɲ" which is also used in the International Phonetic Alphabet. While the uppercase version appears in some writing systems, it is less common than the lowercase form and mainly serves for capitalization in specific linguistic contexts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+019D |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Capital Letter N with Left Hook |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Latin Capital Letter N Hook |
| Block | Latin Extended-B |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ɲ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ɲ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xC6 0x9D |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x019D |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000019D |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u019d |
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 |
| Uppercase | Yes |
| Simple Lowercase Code Point | "ɲ" U+0272 Latin Small Letter N with Left Hook |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ɲ" U+0272 Latin Small Letter N with Left Hook |
| Simple Case Folding | "ɲ" U+0272 Latin Small Letter N with Left Hook |
| Case Folding | "ɲ" U+0272 Latin Small Letter N with Left Hook |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ɲ" U+0272 Latin Small Letter N with Left Hook |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ɲ" U+0272 Latin Small Letter N with Left Hook |
| 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 |