En with hook
Cyrillic letter used for /ŋ/ in many languages
En with hook (Ӈ ӈ; italics: Ӈ ӈ) is a letter of the Cyrillic script. Its form is derived from the Cyrillic letter En (Н н) by adding a hook to the right leg.
En with hook commonly represents the voiced velar nasal /ŋ/, like the pronunciation of ⟨ng⟩ in "sing", in Uralic languages.
01Usage
En with hook is used in the alphabets of a number of languages of Siberia, including all the Chukotko-Kamchatkan and Samoyedic languages:
Chukotko-Kamchatkan languages
Uralic languages
Several Uralic languages use the en with hook.
These include:
Samoyedic languages
Other Uralic languages
Tungusic languages
Eskimo-Aleut languages
Other languages
02Computing codes
En with Hook is encoded in Unicode as U+04C7 (for the capital) and U+04C8 (for the lowercase).
| Preview | Ӈ | ӈ | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unicode name | CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER EN WITH HOOK |
CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER EN WITH HOOK | ||
| Encodings | decimal | hex | dec | hex |
| Unicode | 1223 | U+04C7 | 1224 | U+04C8 |
| UTF-8 | 211 135 | D3 87 | 211 136 | D3 88 |
| Numeric character reference | Ӈ | Ӈ | ӈ | ӈ |
Sources and credits
This article is adapted from the Wikipedia article “En with hook”, written by its contributors and licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Fathomly has changed the layout, removed citation markers, navigation and maintenance notices, and adjusted punctuation. This adapted version is shared under the same license. For references, see the original article.
Images, from Wikimedia Commons:
- Cyrillic letter En with Hook.svg by Пакко, Public domain
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