En with hook
Cyrillic letter used for /ŋ/ in many languages
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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 | |
|---|---|
| Ӈ ӈ | |
 | |
| Usage | |
| Writing system | Cyrillic |
| Type | Alphabetic |
| Sound values | /ŋ/ |
En with hook commonly represents the voiced velar nasal /ŋ/, like the pronunciation of ⟨ng⟩ in "sing", in Uralic languages.[1]
Usage
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.[2]
These include:
Samoyedic languages
Other Uralic languages
Tungusic languages
Eskimo–Aleut languages
Other languages
Computing codes
En with Hook is encoded in Unicode as U+04C7 (for the capital) and U+04C8 (for the lowercase).[4]
| 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 |