U+AB3C "ꬼ" Latin Small Letter Eng with Crossed-Tail Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꬼ
U+AB3C "ꬼ" Latin Small Letter Eng with Crossed-Tail is a specialized typographic symbol used primarily in historical or phonetic transcription contexts, representing a variant of the Latin letter eng (ŋ) with a distinctive crossed tail added to the descender. This character was encoded as part of the Latin Extended-E block to support medievalist scholarship and certain African or minority language orthographies where such a diacritic marks specific phonetic distinctions, such as a nasalized or velarized sound. Its design retains the basic form of the standard eng, which resembles a minuscule n with a hooked tail, while the additional tail crossbar helps differentiate it from similar letters in manuscript or typeset materials.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AB3C |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Latin Small Letter Eng with Crossed-Tail |
| Block | Latin Extended-E |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꬼ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꬼ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xAC 0xBC |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAB3C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AB3C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uab3c |