U+1D3A "ᴺ" Modifier Letter Capital N Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1D3A "ᴺ" Modifier Letter Capital N is a superscript or raised version of the uppercase letter N, classified under the Phonetic Extensions block. It is used primarily in phonetic transcription systems, such as the International Phonetic Alphabet, to denote a nasalized release or a nasal feature of a preceding sound, particularly in the representation of prenasalized consonants or syllabic nasals. This character functions as a diacritic-like modifier rather than a standalone letter, allowing linguists and lexicographers to precisely indicate phonetic nuance in the transcription of spoken language.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1D3A |
| Version Added | 4.0 |
| Name | Modifier Letter Capital N |
| Block | Phonetic Extensions |
| General Category | Modifier Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Super |
| Decomposition Mapping | "N" U+004E Latin Capital Letter N |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᴺ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᴺ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xB4 0xBA |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1D3A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001D3A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1d3a |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Alphabetic |
| Lowercase | Yes |
| Other Lowercase | Yes |
| Case Ignorable | Yes |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "n" U+006E Latin Small Letter N |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "n" U+006E Latin Small Letter N |
| Script | Latin |
| Script Extensions | Latin |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| ID Start | Yes |
| XID Start | Yes |
| ID Continue | Yes |
| XID Continue | Yes |
| Diacritic | Yes |
| Alphabetic | Yes |
| Vertical Orientation | Rotated |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Alphabetic letter |
| Sentence Break | Lower |