U+040A "Њ" Cyrillic Capital Letter Nje Unicode Character

U+040A "Њ" Cyrillic Capital Letter Nje is a ligature and a distinct letter in the Cyrillic script, formed by combining the Cyrillic letters Н (En) and ь (Soft Sign) to represent the palatal nasal consonant sound typically transcribed as /ɲ/. It originated for use in Serbian and Macedonian languages, where it appears as the seventeenth letter of their respective Cyrillic alphabets, functioning as a counterpart to the Latin digraph "Nj". This character is also used in several other languages, including Montenegrin and certain Cyrillic-based orthographies for minority languages, appearing in uppercase at the beginning of proper nouns or in all-caps text, while its lowercase form is "њ" (U+045A).