U+A7A5 "ꞥ" Latin Small Letter N with Oblique Stroke Unicode Character

U+A7A5 "ꞥ" Latin Small Letter N with Oblique Stroke is a glyph used historically in certain medieval Latin manuscripts and in early modern orthographies, particularly for representing a reduced or nasalized sound, often as a scribal abbreviation for the Latin word "non" or the syllable "non". Its distinctive oblique stroke running diagonally through the upright of the lowercase letter n distinguishes it from other n-based characters, such as the tilde-marked n or the n with a short stroke used in phonetic alphabets. While not part of standard modern alphabets, ꞥ remains relevant for scholars of paleography and historical linguistics who need to faithfully transcribe and analyze pre-20th century texts, and it belongs to the Latin Extended-D Unicode block, reflecting efforts to preserve typographic diversity for academic and digital use.