U+01F8 "Ǹ" Latin Capital Letter N with Grave Unicode Character
U+01F8 "Ǹ" Latin Capital Letter N with Grave is a specialized glyph used primarily in the linguistic and academic representation of certain languages, most notably in the romanization of Chinese (such as in Hanyu Pinyin) to denote a falling tone on the syllable represented by the letter N, and in the orthography of some African languages like Yoruba where the grave accent indicates a low tone. It consists of a standard capital N combined with a grave accent diacritic above it, and it is distinct from the more common accented vowels, serving a specific phonetic and tonal purpose in written text where tone or stress is morphologically significant. Although it is a precomposed character in Unicode, it can also be represented as a sequence of the Latin capital letter N followed by the combining grave accent, but the single codepoint ensures consistent display and processing across different systems.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+01F8 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Latin Capital Letter N with Grave |
| Block | Latin Extended-B |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "N" U+004E Latin Capital Letter N "̀" U+0300 Combining Grave Accent |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ǹ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ǹ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xC7 0xB8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x01F8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000001F8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u01f8 |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Alphabetic |
| Uppercase | Yes |
| Simple Lowercase Code Point | "ǹ" U+01F9 Latin Small Letter N with Grave |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ǹ" U+01F9 Latin Small Letter N with Grave |
| Simple Case Folding | "ǹ" U+01F9 Latin Small Letter N with Grave |
| Case Folding | "ǹ" U+01F9 Latin Small Letter N with Grave |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ǹ" U+01F9 Latin Small Letter N with Grave |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ǹ" U+01F9 Latin Small Letter N with Grave |
| 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 |