U+A791 "ꞑ" Latin Small Letter N with Descender Unicode Character

U+A791 "ꞑ" Latin Small Letter N with Descender is a modified letter used in certain Latin-based orthographies, primarily for transcribing tonal African languages such as those in the Mande family, including varieties of Dan and Guro. It represents a voiced velar nasal sound, similar to the 'ng' in "sing," but with a distinctive descending stroke below the baseline that differentiates it from the standard Latin 'n'. This character is part of the Latin Extended-D block and was added to the Unicode Standard to support scholarly and linguistic documentation of indigenous languages where precise phonetic or orthographic distinctions are necessary.

General Properties

Code Point	U+A791
Version Added	6.0
Name	Latin Small Letter N with Descender
Block	Latin Extended-D
General Category	Lowercase 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 0x91
UTF-16 Encoding	0xA791
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000A791
C/C++/Java Escape	\ua791

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
Lowercase	Yes
Simple Uppercase Code Point	"Ꞑ" U+A790 Latin Capital Letter N with Descender
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"Ꞑ" U+A790 Latin Capital Letter N with Descender
Uppercase Code Point	"Ꞑ" U+A790 Latin Capital Letter N with Descender
Titlecase Code Point	"Ꞑ" U+A790 Latin Capital Letter N with Descender
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