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En with descender (Ң ң; italics: ''Ң ң'') is a letter of the
Cyrillic script The Cyrillic script ( ), Slavonic script or the Slavic script, is a writing system used for various languages across Eurasia. It is the designated national script in various Slavic, Turkic, Mongolic, Uralic, Caucasian and Iranic-speaking co ...
. Its form is derived from the Cyrillic letter En (Н н) by adding a descender to the right leg. It commonly represents the
velar nasal The voiced velar nasal, also known as agma, from the Greek word for 'fragment', is a type of consonantal sound used in some spoken languages. It is the sound of ''ng'' in English ''sing'' as well as ''n'' before velar consonants as in ''Englis ...
, like the pronunciation of in "sing". The Cyrillic letter En with descender is romanized as or .


Usage

The Cyrillic letter En with descender is used in the alphabets of the following languages:


Computing codes


See also

*Ӊ ӊ : Cyrillic letter En with tail *Ӈ ӈ : Cyrillic letter En with hook *Ҥ ҥ : Cyrillic ligature En Ge *Ñ ñ : Latin letter Ñ *Ň ň : Latin letter Ň *Ń ń : Latin letter Ń *Ŋ ŋ : Latin letter Eng * : Latin letter N with descender *
Cyrillic characters in Unicode As of Unicode version 15.0 Cyrillic script is encoded across several blocks: * CyrillicU+0400–U+04FF 256 characters * Cyrillic SupplementU+0500–U+052F 48 characters * Cyrillic Extended-AU+2DE0–U+2DFF 32 characters * Cyrillic Extended-BU ...
{{Cyrillic-alphabet-stub Cyrillic letters with diacritics Letters with descender (diacritic)