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uuc=041D|ulc=043D|numeral=50|sound = {{IPA|[n]}}|name={{Script|Cyrs|нашь}}|derived=[[Nu (letter)|Greek letter Nu]] (Ν ν)}} |
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[[File:Karion Istomin's alphabet N.jpg|thumb|''En'', from [[Karion Istomin]]'s 1694 [[alphabet book]]]] |
[[File:Karion Istomin's alphabet N.jpg|thumb|''En'', from [[Karion Istomin]]'s 1694 [[alphabet book]]]] |
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'''En''' (Н н; italics: <span styleU"font-family: times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: larger">''Н н''</span>) is a letter of the [[Cyrillic script]]. |
'''En''' (Н н; italics: <span styleU"font-family: times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: larger">''Н н''</span>) is a letter of the [[Cyrillic script]]. |
Revision as of 18:48, 28 August 2023
En (Н н; italics: Н н) is a letter of the Cyrillic script.
It commonly represents the dental nasal consonant /n/, like the pronunciation of ⟨n⟩ in "neat".
History
The Cyrillic letter En was derived from the Greek letter Nu (Ν ν).
The name of En in the Early Cyrillic alphabet was нашь (našĭ), meaning "ours".
Form
The capital Cyrillic letter En looks exactly the same as the capital Latin letter H but, as with most Cyrillic letters, the lowercase form is simply a smaller version of the uppercase. Rather than from the Greek letter Eta, from which Latin H originated, the Cyrillic letter En ⟨Н⟩ was derived from the Greek letter Nu. By exception, the Romanian Cyrillic alphabet used N and ɴ,[citation needed] instead of Н and н. The confusion between the two characters forms part of the plot of the Agatha Christie novel Murder on the Orient Express.
Related letters and other similar characters
- Ν ν : Greek letter Nu
- N n : Latin letter N
- Њ њ : Cyrillic letter Nje
- Η η : Greek letter Eta
- H h : Latin letter H
- ʜ : Latin letter small capital H
Computing codes
Preview | Н | н | ||
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Unicode name | CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER EN | CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER EN | ||
Encodings | decimal | hex | dec | hex |
Unicode | 1053 | U+041D | 1085 | U+043D |
UTF-8 | 208 157 | D0 9D | 208 189 | D0 BD |
Numeric character reference | Н |
Н |
н |
н |
Named character reference | Н | н | ||
KOI8-R and KOI8-U | 238 | EE | 206 | CE |
Code page 855 | 213 | D5 | 212 | D4 |
Code page 866 | 141 | 8D | 173 | AD |
Windows-1251 | 205 | CD | 237 | ED |
ISO-8859-5 | 189 | BD | 221 | DD |
Macintosh Cyrillic | 141 | 8D | 237 | ED |