U+019E "ƞ" Latin Small Letter N with Long Right Leg Unicode Character

U+019E "ƞ" Latin Small Letter N with Long Right Leg is a specialized typographic symbol used primarily in historical and phonetic contexts, most notably as part of the Latin alphabet for certain African languages and in early transcriptions of the Lappish (Sami) languages. This character features a lowercase n with an elongated descender on the right side, distinguishing it from the standard Latin n. It was often employed to represent a specific nasal sound or a voiced velar nasal, similar to the "ng" sound in English "sing," though its usage has largely fallen out of favor in modern orthographies, being replaced by other characters or digraphs.

General Properties

Code Point	U+019E
Version Added	1.1
Name	Latin Small Letter N with Long Right Leg
Block	Latin Extended-B
General Category	Lowercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ƞ
HTML Hex Encoding	ƞ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xC6 0x9E
UTF-16 Encoding	0x019E
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000019E
C/C++/Java Escape	\u019e

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
Lowercase	Yes
Simple Uppercase Code Point	"Ƞ" U+0220 Latin Capital Letter N with Long Right Leg
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"Ƞ" U+0220 Latin Capital Letter N with Long Right Leg
Uppercase Code Point	"Ƞ" U+0220 Latin Capital Letter N with Long Right Leg
Titlecase Code Point	"Ƞ" U+0220 Latin Capital Letter N with Long Right Leg
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