U+04A5 "ҥ" Cyrillic Small Ligature En Ghe Unicode Character

U+04A5 "ҥ" Cyrillic Small Ligature En Ghe is a typographic ligature used primarily in several non Slavic languages that employ the Cyrillic alphabet, such as the Altai, Khakas, and Yakut languages. It represents a specific phonetic sound, typically a voiced velar nasal or a nasalized velar plosive, which is distinct from the separate letters En (Н) and Ghe (Г) from which it is composed. Historically, its creation stems from a need to represent sounds in these minority languages that were not present in standard Russian or Church Slavonic, making it an essential character for accurate orthography and digital text representation in these linguistic communities.

General Properties

Code Point	U+04A5
Version Added	1.1
Name	Cyrillic Small Ligature En Ghe
Unicode 1.0 Name	Cyrillic Small Letter En Ge
Block	Cyrillic
General Category	Lowercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ҥ
HTML Hex Encoding	ҥ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xD2 0xA5
UTF-16 Encoding	0x04A5
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000004A5
C/C++/Java Escape	\u04a5

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	"Ҥ" U+04A4 Cyrillic Capital Ligature En Ghe
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"Ҥ" U+04A4 Cyrillic Capital Ligature En Ghe
Uppercase Code Point	"Ҥ" U+04A4 Cyrillic Capital Ligature En Ghe
Titlecase Code Point	"Ҥ" U+04A4 Cyrillic Capital Ligature En Ghe
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