En with hook is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet

Cyrillic alphabet

The Cyrillic script or azbuka is an alphabetic writing system developed in the First Bulgarian Empire during the 10th century AD at the Preslav Literary School...

. Its form is derived from the Cyrillic letter En

En (Cyrillic)

En is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet.It commonly represents the alveolar nasal consonant , like the pronunciation of ⟨n⟩ in "nice".-History:The Cyrillic letter En was derived from the Greek letter Nu ....

 (Н н) by adding a hook to the right leg.

En with hook commonly represents the velar nasal

Velar nasal

The velar nasal is the sound of ng in English sing. It is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is , and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is N....

 /ŋ/, like the pronunciation of ⟨ng⟩ in "sing".

Usage

En with hook is used in the alphabets of the following languages:

• Even
  Even language
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• Evenki
• Khanty
  Khanty language
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• Kildin Sami
• Mansi
  Mansi language
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• Nenets
• Nivkh
  Nivkh language
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Computing codes

character	Ӈ		ӈ
Unicode name	CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER EN WITH HOOK		CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER EN WITH HOOK
character encoding	decimal	hex	decimal	hex
Unicode Unicode Unicode is a computing industry standard for the consistent encoding, representation and handling of text expressed in most of the world's writing systems...	1223	04C7	1224	04C8
UTF-8 UTF-8 UTF-8 is a multibyte character encoding for Unicode. Like UTF-16 and UTF-32, UTF-8 can represent every character in the Unicode character set. Unlike them, it is backward-compatible with ASCII and avoids the complications of endianness and byte order marks...	211 135	D3 87	211 136	D3 88
Numeric character reference Numeric character reference A numeric character reference is a common markup construct used in SGML and other SGML-related markup languages such as HTML and XML. It consists of a short sequence of characters that, in turn, represent a single character from the Universal Character Set of Unicode...	Ӈ	Ӈ	ӈ	ӈ

See also

: Cyrillic letter En with descender : Cyrillic letter En with tail

En with tail

En with tail is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet. Its form is derived from the Cyrillic letter En by adding a tail to the right leg....

 : Cyrillic ligature En Ge

• Ŋ ŋ : Latin letter Eng
  Eng (letter)
  Eng or engma is a letter of the Latin alphabet, used to represent a velar nasal in the written form of some languages and in the International Phonetic Alphabet.-History:...
  
  
• Cyrillic characters in Unicode
  Cyrillic characters in Unicode
  The Cyrillic script is encoded in four blocks in Unicode, all in BMP:* Cyrillic: , 256 characters* Cyrillic Supplement: , 48 characters* Cyrillic Extended-A: , 32 characters* Cyrillic Extended-B: , 96 characters...