U+0272 "ɲ" Latin Small Letter N with Left Hook Unicode Character

U+0272 "ɲ" Latin Small Letter N with Left Hook is a phonetic symbol used primarily in the International Phonetic Alphabet to represent a voiced palatal nasal sound, similar to the 'ny' in the English word "canyon." It appears frequently in the orthographies of African languages such as Bambara and in some Eastern European languages like Polish, where it corresponds to the letter "ń." The character derives from a Latin 'n' with a leftward hook on its stem, signifying its palatal articulation, and it is distinct from the similar-looking but differently coded "ʼn" or other hooked variants.

General Properties

Code Point	U+0272
Version Added	1.1
Name	Latin Small Letter N with Left Hook
Unicode 1.0 Name	Latin Small Letter N Hook
Block	IPA Extensions
General Category	Lowercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ɲ
HTML Hex Encoding	ɲ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xC9 0xB2
UTF-16 Encoding	0x0272
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00000272
C/C++/Java Escape	\u0272

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	"Ɲ" U+019D Latin Capital Letter N with Left Hook
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"Ɲ" U+019D Latin Capital Letter N with Left Hook
Uppercase Code Point	"Ɲ" U+019D Latin Capital Letter N with Left Hook
Titlecase Code Point	"Ɲ" U+019D Latin Capital Letter N with Left Hook
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