U+04A4 "Ҥ" Cyrillic Capital Ligature En Ghe Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+04A4 "Ҥ" Cyrillic Capital Ligature En Ghe is a Cyrillic letter formed as a ligature of the letters En (Н) and Ghe (Г), used historically and in some modern orthographies for languages such as Old Church Slavonic, Mari, and certain Samoyedic and Uralic languages where it represents a velar nasal sound, often similar to the "ng" in English "song". This character is part of the Cyrillic Extended-A block and is primarily employed in scholarly or liturgical contexts, as well as in digital text encoding to accurately reflect the phonetic needs of these languages. Its lowercase form is U+04A5 "ҥ", and while it appears similar to the Latin letter "N" with a hook, its usage remains distinct to Cyrillic script traditions.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+04A4 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Cyrillic Capital Ligature En Ghe |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Cyrillic Capital Letter En Ge |
| Block | Cyrillic |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ҥ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ҥ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xD2 0xA4 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x04A4 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000004A4 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u04a4 |
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 | "ҥ" U+04A5 Cyrillic Small Ligature En Ghe |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ҥ" U+04A5 Cyrillic Small Ligature En Ghe |
| Simple Case Folding | "ҥ" U+04A5 Cyrillic Small Ligature En Ghe |
| Case Folding | "ҥ" U+04A5 Cyrillic Small Ligature En Ghe |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ҥ" U+04A5 Cyrillic Small Ligature En Ghe |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ҥ" U+04A5 Cyrillic Small Ligature En Ghe |
| 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 |