U+0274 "ɴ" Latin Letter Small Capital N Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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U+0274 "ɴ" Latin Letter Small Capital N is a typographic variant of the Latin letter N, designed as a smaller, capitalized form that is used primarily in phonetic transcription, most notably within the International Phonetic Alphabet. In the IPA, this character represents a voiced uvular nasal, a consonant sound produced with the back of the tongue against the uvula, as heard in some dialects of French or in the Arabic letter ق in certain contexts. It is also employed in other linguistic notations, such as the Uralic Phonetic Alphabet, where it indicates a voiceless or reduced nasal, and is visually distinct from both the regular lowercase "n" and the capital "N" due to its x-height alignment.

General Properties

Code Point U+0274
Version Added 1.1
Name Latin Letter Small Capital N
Block IPA Extensions
General Category Lowercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ɴ
HTML Hex Encoding ɴ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xC9 0xB4
UTF-16 Encoding 0x0274
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00000274
C/C++/Java Escape \u0274

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
Cased 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