U+01CB "Nj" Latin Capital Letter N with Small Letter J Unicode Character
U+01CB "Nj" Latin Capital Letter N with Small Letter J is a rare and specialized typographic ligature used primarily in the Latin orthography of certain languages, most notably in older or standardized forms of Croatian and Serbian, where it represents the digraph "NJ" that denotes the palatal nasal sound /ɲ/. This character is categorized as a titlecase letter, meaning it is designed to appear at the beginning of a word where the first component is capitalized while the second remains lowercase, such as in the name "Njegoš" or the word "nježan" when capitalized. Its inclusion in the Unicode standard ensures that digital text can faithfully reproduce these phonetic combinations without relying on two separate characters, preserving the intended visual and linguistic connection between the N and the J.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+01CB |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Capital Letter N with Small Letter J |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Latin Letter Capital N Small J |
| Block | Latin Extended-B |
| General Category | Titlecase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Compat |
| Decomposition Mapping | "N" U+004E Latin Capital Letter N "j" U+006A Latin Small Letter J |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Nj |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Nj |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xC7 0x8B |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x01CB |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000001CB |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u01cb |