U+1E44 "Ṅ" Latin Capital Letter N with Dot Above Unicode Character
U+1E44 "Ṅ" Latin Capital Letter N with Dot Above is a precomposed Latin letter used primarily in transliteration systems and certain orthographies to represent a voiced velar nasal sound, similar to the 'ng' in the English word "sing". This character is employed in academic contexts such as the International Alphabet of Sanskrit Transliteration (IAST) to denote the Sanskrit phoneme ङ, as well as in some African languages like Ganda and in linguistic transcription of various languages where a nasal consonant requires a distinguishing dot diacritic. The dot above the standard capital N modifies its pronunciation, making it distinct from the plain N and its other diacritic variants, and it is encoded in the Unicode Standard's Latin Extended Additional block to support consistent digital representation across platforms and software.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1E44 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Capital Letter N with Dot Above |
| Block | Latin Extended Additional |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "N" U+004E Latin Capital Letter N "̇" U+0307 Combining Dot Above |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ṅ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ṅ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xB9 0x84 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1E44 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001E44 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1e44 |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Alphabetic |
| Uppercase | Yes |
| Simple Lowercase Code Point | "ṅ" U+1E45 Latin Small Letter N with Dot Above |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ṅ" U+1E45 Latin Small Letter N with Dot Above |
| Simple Case Folding | "ṅ" U+1E45 Latin Small Letter N with Dot Above |
| Case Folding | "ṅ" U+1E45 Latin Small Letter N with Dot Above |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ṅ" U+1E45 Latin Small Letter N with Dot Above |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ṅ" U+1E45 Latin Small Letter N with Dot Above |
| Script | Latin |
| Script Extensions | Latin |
| 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 |