U+0646 "ن" Arabic Letter Noon Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ن
U+0646 "ن" Arabic Letter Noon is the 25th letter of the Arabic alphabet, representing the alveolar nasal sound similar to the English "n." It is a solar letter, meaning it assimilates with the definite article "al-" in pronunciation, and it serves a crucial grammatical role as the marker for the imperfect verb mood in Arabic, often indicating the present tense or subjunctive state. Written in an isolated form as a curved bowl with a dot above it, Noon connects to preceding letters but not to following ones in most scripts, making it a fundamental component in the writing of numerous words across Arabic, Persian, Urdu, and other languages that use the Arabic script.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0646 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Letter Noon |
| Block | Arabic |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Arabic Letter |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ن |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ن |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xD9 0x86 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0646 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000646 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0646 |