U+1E48 "Ṉ" Latin Capital Letter N with Line Below Unicode Character
U+1E48 "Ṉ" Latin Capital Letter N with Line Below is a modified version of the standard Latin letter N, distinguished by a horizontal line drawn directly beneath it, which serves as a diacritical mark. This glyph is primarily used in the orthographies of certain Indigenous languages, such as those of the Saanich dialect of North Straits Salish (also known as SENĆOŦEN) and some Australian Aboriginal languages, where it represents a distinct phonetic sound, typically a velar or uvular nasal consonant not found in standard English. The line below indicates a specific articulatory feature, often signifying a retracted or "dark" pronunciation of the /n/ sound. Its inclusion in the Unicode standard ensures that this important letter can be accurately represented in digital text, supporting proper documentation and revitalization efforts for the languages that rely on it.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1E48 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Capital Letter N with Line 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+0331 Combining Macron Below |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ṉ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ṉ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xB9 0x88 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1E48 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001E48 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1e48 |
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 | "ṉ" U+1E49 Latin Small Letter N with Line Below |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ṉ" U+1E49 Latin Small Letter N with Line Below |
| Simple Case Folding | "ṉ" U+1E49 Latin Small Letter N with Line Below |
| Case Folding | "ṉ" U+1E49 Latin Small Letter N with Line Below |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ṉ" U+1E49 Latin Small Letter N with Line Below |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ṉ" U+1E49 Latin Small Letter N with Line 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 |