U+1E46 "Ṇ" Latin Capital Letter N with Dot Below Unicode Character
U+1E46 "Ṇ" Latin Capital Letter N with Dot Below is a specialized letter used primarily in transcription systems and orthographies for languages such as Sanskrit, Yoruba, and various African and Indigenous American languages. This character represents a retroflex or dental nasal sound, where the dot below indicates a distinct articulation from the standard "N," often signifying a retroflex or murmured pronunciation. It is part of the Latin Extended Additional block and is encoded for use in scholarly and linguistic contexts, ensuring accurate representation of phonetic distinctions without reliance on digraphs or diacritic combinations. The character maintains compatibility with other Latin script letters and is commonly employed in transliterations of Devanagari and other Brahmic scripts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1E46 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Capital Letter N with Dot Below |
| 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+0323 Combining Dot Below |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ṇ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ṇ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xB9 0x86 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1E46 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001E46 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1e46 |
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 | "ṇ" U+1E47 Latin Small Letter N with Dot Below |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ṇ" U+1E47 Latin Small Letter N with Dot Below |
| Simple Case Folding | "ṇ" U+1E47 Latin Small Letter N with Dot Below |
| Case Folding | "ṇ" U+1E47 Latin Small Letter N with Dot Below |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ṇ" U+1E47 Latin Small Letter N with Dot Below |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ṇ" U+1E47 Latin Small Letter N with Dot Below |
| 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 |