U+1DE0 "ᷠ" Combining Latin Small Letter N Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+1DE0 "ᷠ" Combining Latin Small Letter N is a diacritical mark used in historical and scholarly text transcription to modify a preceding base character, typically a letter, by indicating a nasalization or an n sound that is not fully pronounced as a separate consonant. It appears as a small superscript n placed above the character it combines with, functioning as a combining mark rather than a standalone letter. This character is primarily employed in linguistic and philological contexts, such as in the transcription of medieval manuscripts or old European languages where nasal vowels or omitted nasals needed to be represented accurately. It belongs to the Combining Diacritical Marks Supplement block and is intended for specialized typesetting rather than general modern writing.

General Properties

Code Point U+1DE0
Version Added 5.1
Name Combining Latin Small Letter N
Block Combining Diacritical Marks Supplement
General Category Nonspacing Mark
Canonical Combining Class Above
Bidirectional Class Nonspacing Mark

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ᷠ
HTML Hex Encoding ᷠ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE1 0xB7 0xA0
UTF-16 Encoding 0x1DE0
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00001DE0
C/C++/Java Escape \u1de0

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Joining Type Transparent
Line Break Combining Mark
Case Ignorable Yes
Script Inherited
Script Extensions Inherited
Indic Syllabic Category Other
Indic Conjunct Break Extend
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Other Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Rotated
Grapheme Extend Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Extend
Word Break Extend
Sentence Break Extend