U+A790 "Ꞑ" Latin Capital Letter N with Descender Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
Ꞑ
U+A790 "Ꞑ" Latin Capital Letter N with Descender is a typographic variant of the letter N that features a downward hook or tail extending below the baseline, known as a descender. This character is primarily used in the orthographies of certain African languages, such as the Ewe and Hassanïya Arabic Berber scripts, where it represents a distinct phonetic value, typically a velar nasal or a similar sound not adequately covered by the standard Latin alphabet. It belongs to the Latin Extended-D block and is encoded to support linguistic diversity, serving as a crucial tool for accurate written representation in those languages.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A790 |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Latin Capital Letter N with Descender |
| Block | Latin Extended-D |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ꞑ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ꞑ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x9E 0x90 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA790 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A790 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua790 |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Alphabetic |
| Uppercase | Yes |
| Simple Lowercase Code Point | "ꞑ" U+A791 Latin Small Letter N with Descender |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ꞑ" U+A791 Latin Small Letter N with Descender |
| Simple Case Folding | "ꞑ" U+A791 Latin Small Letter N with Descender |
| Case Folding | "ꞑ" U+A791 Latin Small Letter N with Descender |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ꞑ" U+A791 Latin Small Letter N with Descender |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ꞑ" U+A791 Latin Small Letter N with Descender |
| 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 |