En with middle hook (Ԣ ԣ; italics:
''Ԣ ԣ'') 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 cou ...
. Its form is derived from the
Cyrillic letter En (Н н) by adding a hook to the middle of the right leg.
En with middle hook was formerly used in the alphabet of the
Chuvash language
Chuvash ( , ; , , ) is a Turkic language spoken in European Russia, primarily in the Chuvash Republic and adjacent areas. It is the only surviving member of the Oghur branch of Turkic languages, one of the two principal branches of the Tur ...
, where it represented the palatalised
alveolar nasal
The voiced alveolar nasal is a type of consonantal sound used in numerous spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents dental, alveolar, and postalveolar nasals is , and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol i ...
.
[http://unicode.org/L2/L2007/07003-n3194-cyrillic.pdf]
Related letters and other similar characters
*Н н :
Cyrillic letter En
*Ь ь :
Cyrillic letter Soft sign
*Ñ ñ :
Latin letter N with tilde
*Ń ń :
Latin letter N with acute
*Ň ň :
Latin letter N with caron
*Љ љ :
Cyrillic letter Lje
Computing codes
See also
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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+A ...
References
Languages of Russia
Turkic languages
Cyrillic letters with diacritics
Letters with hook
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