U+045A "њ" Cyrillic Small Letter Nje Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+045A "њ" Cyrillic Small Letter Nje is a letter in the Cyrillic script, specifically used in the Serbian, Montenegrin, and Bosnian alphabets, where it represents a palatal nasal consonant sound similar to the "ny" in the English word "canyon." It is the lowercase form of the uppercase letter "Њ," and its creation is attributed to Vuk Karadžić, the 19th-century Serbian language reformer, as part of his effort to standardize the Serbian Cyrillic alphabet. In terms of Unicode encoding, this character belongs to the Cyrillic block and occupies the code point U+045A, making it distinct from the similar-looking Latin "nj" digraph used in the same languages.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+045A |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Cyrillic Small Letter Nje |
| Block | Cyrillic |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | њ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | њ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xD1 0x9A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x045A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000045A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u045a |
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 | "Њ" U+040A Cyrillic Capital Letter Nje |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "Њ" U+040A Cyrillic Capital Letter Nje |
| Uppercase Code Point | "Њ" U+040A Cyrillic Capital Letter Nje |
| Titlecase Code Point | "Њ" U+040A Cyrillic Capital Letter Nje |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Titlecased | Yes |
| Changes When Uppercased | Yes |
| 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 | Lower |