U+01F9 "ǹ" Latin Small Letter N with Grave Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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U+01F9 "ǹ" Latin Small Letter N with Grave is a specialized alphabetic letter used in certain romanization systems and linguistic contexts to represent a specific phonetic value, namely a voiced alveolar nasal sound articulated with a low or falling tone indicated by the grave accent diacritic. It appears most prominently in the romanization of Cantonese Chinese, where it denotes the syllable-final "n" sound with a low falling tone, as well as in the transcription of some African languages. Visually, the character is formed by combining a standard lowercase "n" with a grave accent mark placed above and slightly to the left of the letter. This glyph is encoded in the Unicode Latin Extended-B block and is distinct from the more common n with grave found in precomposed character sets, ensuring its proper representation in digital text for precise scholarly and linguistic documentation.

General Properties

Code Point U+01F9
Version Added 3.0
Name Latin Small Letter N with Grave
Block Latin Extended-B
General Category Lowercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right
Decomposition Type Canonical
Decomposition Mapping "n" U+006E Latin Small Letter N
"̀" U+0300 Combining Grave Accent

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ǹ
HTML Hex Encoding ǹ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xC7 0xB9
UTF-16 Encoding 0x01F9
UTF-32 Encoding 0x000001F9
C/C++/Java Escape \u01f9

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Alphabetic
Lowercase Yes
Simple Uppercase Code Point "Ǹ" U+01F8 Latin Capital Letter N with Grave
Simple Titlecase Code Point "Ǹ" U+01F8 Latin Capital Letter N with Grave
Uppercase Code Point "Ǹ" U+01F8 Latin Capital Letter N with Grave
Titlecase Code Point "Ǹ" U+01F8 Latin Capital Letter N with Grave
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