U+1E4B "ṋ" Latin Small Letter N with Circumflex Below Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1E4B "ṋ" Latin Small Letter N with Circumflex Below is a specialized typographic glyph used primarily in certain African languages, such as Venda, where it represents a specific nasal sound distinct from the standard letter "n". The circumflex diacritic placed beneath the letter indicates a particular phonetic modification, often signaling a lowered or breathy pronunciation. This character is encoded in the Unicode Latin Extended Additional block and is rarely encountered in general English or European texts, making it important for accurate digital representation and orthography in linguistic documentation and local language publishing.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1E4B |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Small Letter N with Circumflex 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+032D Combining Circumflex Accent Below |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ṋ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ṋ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xB9 0x8B |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1E4B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001E4B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1e4b |
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 | "Ṋ" U+1E4A Latin Capital Letter N with Circumflex Below |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "Ṋ" U+1E4A Latin Capital Letter N with Circumflex Below |
| Uppercase Code Point | "Ṋ" U+1E4A Latin Capital Letter N with Circumflex Below |
| Titlecase Code Point | "Ṋ" U+1E4A Latin Capital Letter N with Circumflex 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 |