U+0146 "ņ" Latin Small Letter N with Cedilla Unicode Character

Unicode Version 18.0

ņ
Source: Noto Sans Source: Browser Default

U+0146 "ņ" Latin Small Letter N with Cedilla is a modified lowercase letter n distinguished by a small hook or tail attached below its baseline, known as a cedilla. This character is primarily used in the Latvian alphabet to represent a palatalized or soft n sound, which is distinct from the standard n and appears in words like "tēviņš" meaning little father. It also occurs in other languages such as Livonian and occasionally in transliterations from Cyrillic scripts. In Unicode, it belongs to the Latin Extended-A block and has a corresponding uppercase version at U+0145 "Ņ".

General Properties

Code Point
U+0146
Name
Latin Small Letter N with Cedilla
Unicode 1.0 Name
Latin Small Letter N Cedilla

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding
ņ
HTML Hex Encoding
ņ
UTF-8 Encoding
0xC5 0x86
UTF-16 Encoding
0x0146
UTF-32 Encoding
0x00000146
C/C++/Java Escape
\u0146