U+1E4A "Ṋ" Latin Capital Letter N with Circumflex Below Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
Ṋ
U+1E4A "Ṋ" Latin Capital Letter N with Circumflex Below is a specialized letter used primarily in the transcription of certain African languages, such as Venda, where it represents a specific nasal sound articulated with a raised tongue position indicated by the circumflex diacritic placed beneath the N. This character is part of the Latin Extended Additional block, designed to accommodate phonetic and orthographic needs beyond standard Latin alphabets. It appears as a capital N with a small, inverted wedge shaped mark directly underneath, and its lowercase counterpart is U+1E4B "ṋ". While rarely encountered in everyday text, it serves a crucial role in linguistic documentation and accurate representation of minority languages.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1E4A |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Capital Letter N with Circumflex 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+032D Combining Circumflex Accent Below |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ṋ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ṋ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xB9 0x8A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1E4A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001E4A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1e4a |
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 | "ṋ" U+1E4B Latin Small Letter N with Circumflex Below |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ṋ" U+1E4B Latin Small Letter N with Circumflex Below |
| Simple Case Folding | "ṋ" U+1E4B Latin Small Letter N with Circumflex Below |
| Case Folding | "ṋ" U+1E4B Latin Small Letter N with Circumflex Below |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ṋ" U+1E4B Latin Small Letter N with Circumflex Below |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ṋ" U+1E4B Latin Small Letter N with Circumflex 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 |