U+040A "Њ" Cyrillic Capital Letter Nje Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
Њ
U+040A "Њ" Cyrillic Capital Letter Nje is a ligature and a distinct letter in the Cyrillic script, formed by combining the Cyrillic letters Н (En) and ь (Soft Sign) to represent the palatal nasal consonant sound typically transcribed as /ɲ/. It originated for use in Serbian and Macedonian languages, where it appears as the seventeenth letter of their respective Cyrillic alphabets, functioning as a counterpart to the Latin digraph "Nj". This character is also used in several other languages, including Montenegrin and certain Cyrillic-based orthographies for minority languages, appearing in uppercase at the beginning of proper nouns or in all-caps text, while its lowercase form is "њ" (U+045A).
General Properties
| Code Point | U+040A |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Cyrillic Capital Letter Nje |
| Block | Cyrillic |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Њ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Њ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xD0 0x8A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x040A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000040A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u040a |
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 |
| Uppercase | Yes |
| Simple Lowercase Code Point | "њ" U+045A Cyrillic Small Letter Nje |
| Lowercase Code Point | "њ" U+045A Cyrillic Small Letter Nje |
| Simple Case Folding | "њ" U+045A Cyrillic Small Letter Nje |
| Case Folding | "њ" U+045A Cyrillic Small Letter Nje |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "њ" U+045A Cyrillic Small Letter Nje |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "њ" U+045A Cyrillic Small Letter Nje |
| Script | Cyrillic |
| Script Extensions | Cyrillic |
| 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 |