U+04A3 "ң" Cyrillic Small Letter En with Descender Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ң
U+04A3 "ң" Cyrillic Small Letter En with Descender is a letter used in several non-Slavic languages that utilize the Cyrillic script, most prominently in Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Tatar, and Bashkir, where it represents a velar nasal sound similar to the 'ng' in the English word "song". Its visual form consists of the standard Cyrillic letter "н" (En) with a descender a small hook or tail appended to the bottom right of the vertical stroke distinguishing it from the plain "н". As a native letter of these alphabets, it appears in common words and place names such as the Kazakh word "таң" meaning "dawn" and is encoded for digital text processing to ensure accurate representation of these languages in computing systems.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+04A3 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Cyrillic Small Letter En with Descender |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Cyrillic Small Letter En with Right Descender |
| Block | Cyrillic |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ң |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ң |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xD2 0xA3 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x04A3 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000004A3 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u04a3 |
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 | "Ң" U+04A2 Cyrillic Capital Letter En with Descender |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "Ң" U+04A2 Cyrillic Capital Letter En with Descender |
| Uppercase Code Point | "Ң" U+04A2 Cyrillic Capital Letter En with Descender |
| Titlecase Code Point | "Ң" U+04A2 Cyrillic Capital Letter En with Descender |
| 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 |