U+1E49 "ṉ" Latin Small Letter N with Line Below Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1E49 "ṉ" Latin Small Letter N with Line Below is a specialized letter used primarily in the transliteration of certain Indic languages, such as Tamil and Malayalam, where it represents a retroflex nasal sound distinct from the standard dental or alveolar "n". The line below the letter signals that the tongue is curled back to produce this retroflex articulation, which is crucial for accurately representing phonetic distinctions in those writing systems. This character belongs to the Latin Extended Additional block and is encoded for digital text to support scholarly and linguistic work where precise orthographic representation is needed without relying on complex diacritic combinations or custom fonts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1E49 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Small Letter N with Line Below |
| 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+0331 Combining Macron Below |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ṉ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ṉ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xB9 0x89 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1E49 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001E49 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1e49 |
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 | "Ṉ" U+1E48 Latin Capital Letter N with Line Below |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "Ṉ" U+1E48 Latin Capital Letter N with Line Below |
| Uppercase Code Point | "Ṉ" U+1E48 Latin Capital Letter N with Line Below |
| Titlecase Code Point | "Ṉ" U+1E48 Latin Capital Letter N with Line Below |
| 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 |