U+04C9 "Ӊ" Cyrillic Capital Letter En with Tail Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
Ӊ
U+04C9 "Ӊ" Cyrillic Capital Letter En with Tail is a relatively rare character used primarily in the Cyrillic orthographies of certain small minority languages spoken in Russia, such as Khanty, where it represents a specific nasalized or palatalized dental consonant sound, typically a voiceless or voiced alveolar nasal [n] followed by a distinct palatal glide. This letter is formed by adding a downward hook or tail to the base of the standard Cyrillic letter En (Н), visually distinguishing it from its plain counterpart while maintaining a clear relationship to the broader Cyrillic script family. Its inclusion in the Unicode Standard ensures that these languages can be accurately encoded and digitally preserved.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+04C9 |
| Version Added | 3.2 |
| Name | Cyrillic Capital Letter En with Tail |
| Block | Cyrillic |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ӊ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ӊ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xD3 0x89 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x04C9 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000004C9 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u04c9 |
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 | "ӊ" U+04CA Cyrillic Small Letter En with Tail |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ӊ" U+04CA Cyrillic Small Letter En with Tail |
| Simple Case Folding | "ӊ" U+04CA Cyrillic Small Letter En with Tail |
| Case Folding | "ӊ" U+04CA Cyrillic Small Letter En with Tail |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ӊ" U+04CA Cyrillic Small Letter En with Tail |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ӊ" U+04CA Cyrillic Small Letter En with Tail |
| 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 |