U+04A2 "Ң" Cyrillic Capital Letter En with Descender Unicode Character
U+04A2 "Ң" Cyrillic Capital Letter En with Descender is a modified Cyrillic letter used primarily in the alphabets of several non Slavic languages within the former Soviet Union, such as Bashkir, Kyrgyz, Tatar, and Kazakh, where it represents a voiced velar nasal sound, similar to the "ng" in the English word "song". Its form consists of the standard Cyrillic letter En (Н) with a short vertical stroke or descender attached to the bottom of the right leg, distinguishing it from its base counterpart and enabling precise phonetic transcription in those languages. This character is typically paired with its lowercase equivalent, "ң" (U+04A3), and is encoded in the Unicode Standard within the Cyrillic Extended A block, supporting the digital representation and processing of texts that require this distinct phonetic element.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+04A2 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Cyrillic Capital Letter En with Descender |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Cyrillic Capital Letter En with Right Descender |
| Block | Cyrillic |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ң |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ң |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xD2 0xA2 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x04A2 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000004A2 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u04a2 |
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 | "ң" U+04A3 Cyrillic Small Letter En with Descender |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ң" U+04A3 Cyrillic Small Letter En with Descender |
| Simple Case Folding | "ң" U+04A3 Cyrillic Small Letter En with Descender |
| Case Folding | "ң" U+04A3 Cyrillic Small Letter En with Descender |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ң" U+04A3 Cyrillic Small Letter En with Descender |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ң" U+04A3 Cyrillic Small Letter En with Descender |
| 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 |