U+1E45 "ṅ" Latin Small Letter N with Dot Above Unicode Character
U+1E45 "ṅ" Latin Small Letter N with Dot Above is a specialized letter used primarily in the Latin-based orthographies of several languages, most notably for transliterating the Sanskrit ङ (the velar nasal) in Indological studies, as well as in the writing systems of African languages like Igbo and in the linguistic notation of the International Phonetic Alphabet for a dental or alveolar nasal. It appears in historical texts, liturgical works, and modern academic transliterations to represent a specific nasal sound distinct from the plain "n". The character can be composed by combining a standard lowercase "n" with the combining dot above (U+0307), or it may be represented as a precomposed form for consistency and ease of use in digital typography and text processing.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1E45 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Small Letter N with Dot Above |
| Block | Latin Extended Additional |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "n" U+006E Latin Small Letter N "̇" U+0307 Combining Dot Above |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ṅ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ṅ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xB9 0x85 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1E45 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001E45 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1e45 |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Alphabetic |
| Lowercase | Yes |
| Simple Uppercase Code Point | "Ṅ" U+1E44 Latin Capital Letter N with Dot Above |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "Ṅ" U+1E44 Latin Capital Letter N with Dot Above |
| Uppercase Code Point | "Ṅ" U+1E44 Latin Capital Letter N with Dot Above |
| Titlecase Code Point | "Ṅ" U+1E44 Latin Capital Letter N with Dot Above |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Titlecased | Yes |
| Changes When Uppercased | Yes |
| 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 | Lower |