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
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:
Latin letter N with descender
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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 ...
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Cyrillic letters with diacritics
Letters with descender (diacritic)