U+1D51 "ᵑ" Modifier Letter Small Eng Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ᵑ
U+1D51 "ᵑ" Modifier Letter Small Eng is a typographic symbol used primarily in phonetic transcription, specifically within the International Phonetic Alphabet, to indicate a prenasalized or nasal release of a preceding consonant. It represents a small, superscript version of the letter "eng" which denotes the velar nasal sound heard at the end of the English word "sing", and its modifier status allows it to modify the pronunciation of a base character in linguistic notation, often appearing in the transcription of languages such as those from West Africa or the Pacific region.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1D51 |
| Version Added | 4.0 |
| Name | Modifier Letter Small Eng |
| Block | Phonetic Extensions |
| General Category | Modifier Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Super |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ŋ" U+014B Latin Small Letter Eng |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᵑ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᵑ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xB5 0x91 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1D51 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001D51 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1d51 |
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 | "ŋ" U+014B Latin Small Letter Eng |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ŋ" U+014B Latin Small Letter Eng |
| 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 |