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Glyph for U+01CB
Source: Noto Sans

U+01CB Latin Capital Letter N with Small Letter J

U+01CB was added in Unicode version 1.1 in 1993. It belongs to the block U+0180 to U+024F Latin Extended-B in the U+0000 to U+FFFF Basic Multilingual Plane.

This character is a Titlecase Letter and is mainly used in the Latin script. Its uppercase variant is Glyph for U+01CA Latin Capital Letter Nj and its lowercase variant is Glyph for U+01CC Latin Small Letter Nj.

The glyph is a compatibility composition of the glyphs Glyph for U+004E Latin Capital Letter N, Glyph for U+006A Latin Small Letter J. It has no designated width in East Asian texts. In bidirectional text it is written from left to right. When changing direction it is not mirrored. The word that U+01CB forms with similar adjacent characters prevents a line break inside it. The glyph can be confused with one other glyph.

The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:

Nj (titlecase form; all-capitals form NJ, lowercase nj) is a letter present in South Slavic languages such as the Latin-alphabet version of Serbo-Croatian and in romanised Macedonian. It is also used in the Albanian alphabet. In all of these languages, it represents the palatal nasal /ɲ/. It is pronounced as Dom Pérignon. For example, the Serbo-Croatian word konj is pronounced /koɲ/.

In Serbo-Croatian, the digraph is treated as a single letter, and therefore it has its own place in the alphabet (as the 20th letter, following N), takes up only one space in crossword puzzles, and is written in line in vertical text. However, it does not have its own key in standard computer keyboards as it is almost never represented by a single character.

Other letters and digraphs of the Latin alphabet used for spelling this sound are ń (in Polish), ň (in Czech and Slovak), ñ (in Spanish), nh (in Portuguese and Occitan), gn (in French and Italian), and ny (in Hungarian, among others). The Cyrillic alphabet also includes a specific symbol, constructed in a similar fashion as nj: Њ.

In Faroese, it generally represents /ɲ/, although in some words it represents /nj/, like in banjo.

Ljudevit Gaj first used this digraph in 1830.

It is also used in some languages of Africa and Oceania where it represents a prenazalized voiced postalveolar affricate or fricative, /ⁿdʒ/ or /ⁿʒ/. In Malagasy, it represents /ⁿdz/.

Representations

System Representation
459
UTF-8 C7 8B
UTF-16 01 CB
UTF-32 00 00 01 CB
URL-Quoted %C7%8B
HTML hex reference Nj
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake Ç‹
AGL: Latin-5 uni01CB
Adobe Glyph List Nj

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Complete Record

Property Value
Age (age) 1.1 (1993)
Unicode Name (na) LATIN CAPITAL LETTER N WITH SMALL LETTER J
Unicode 1 Name (na1) LATIN LETTER CAPITAL N SMALL J
Block (blk) Latin Extended-B
General Category (gc) Titlecase Letter
Script (sc) Latin
Bidirectional Category (bc) Left To Right
Combining Class (ccc) Not Reordered
Decomposition Type (dt) compatibility
Decomposition Mapping (dm) Glyph for U+004E Latin Capital Letter N Glyph for U+006A Latin Small Letter J
Lowercase (Lower)
Simple Lowercase Mapping (slc) Glyph for U+01CC Latin Small Letter Nj
Lowercase Mapping (lc) Glyph for U+01CC Latin Small Letter Nj
Uppercase (Upper)
Simple Uppercase Mapping (suc) Glyph for U+01CA Latin Capital Letter Nj
Uppercase Mapping (uc) Glyph for U+01CA Latin Capital Letter Nj
Simple Titlecase Mapping (stc) Glyph for U+01CB Latin Capital Letter N with Small Letter J
Titlecase Mapping (tc) Glyph for U+01CB Latin Capital Letter N with Small Letter J
Case Folding (cf) Glyph for U+01CC Latin Small Letter Nj
ASCII Hex Digit (AHex)
Alphabetic (Alpha)
Bidi Control (Bidi_C)
Bidi Mirrored (Bidi_M)
Composition Exclusion (CE)
Case Ignorable (CI)
Changes When Casefolded (CWCF)
Changes When Casemapped (CWCM)
Changes When NFKC Casefolded (CWKCF)
Changes When Lowercased (CWL)
Changes When Titlecased (CWT)
Changes When Uppercased (CWU)
Cased (Cased)
Full Composition Exclusion (Comp_Ex)
Default Ignorable Code Point (DI)
Dash (Dash)
Deprecated (Dep)
Diacritic (Dia)
Emoji Modifier Base (EBase)
Emoji Component (EComp)
Emoji Modifier (EMod)
Emoji Presentation (EPres)
Emoji (Emoji)
Extender (Ext)
Extended Pictographic (ExtPict)
FC NFKC Closure (FC_NFKC) Glyph for U+01CB Latin Capital Letter N with Small Letter J
Grapheme Cluster Break (GCB) Any
Grapheme Base (Gr_Base)
Grapheme Extend (Gr_Ext)
Grapheme Link (Gr_Link)
Hex Digit (Hex)
Hyphen (Hyphen)
ID Continue (IDC)
ID Start (IDS)
IDS Binary Operator (IDSB)
IDS Trinary Operator and (IDST)
IDSU (IDSU) 0
ID_Compat_Math_Continue (ID_Compat_Math_Continue) 0
ID_Compat_Math_Start (ID_Compat_Math_Start) 0
Ideographic (Ideo)
InCB (InCB) None
Indic Mantra Category (InMC)
Indic Positional Category (InPC) NA
Indic Syllabic Category (InSC) Other
Jamo Short Name (JSN)
Join Control (Join_C)
Logical Order Exception (LOE)
Math (Math)
Noncharacter Code Point (NChar)
NFC Quick Check (NFC_QC) Yes
NFD Quick Check (NFD_QC) Yes
NFKC Casefold (NFKC_CF) Glyph for U+006E Latin Small Letter N Glyph for U+006A Latin Small Letter J
NFKC Quick Check (NFKC_QC) No
NFKC_SCF (NFKC_SCF) Glyph for U+006E Latin Small Letter N Glyph for U+006A Latin Small Letter J
NFKD Quick Check (NFKD_QC) No
Other Alphabetic (OAlpha)
Other Default Ignorable Code Point (ODI)
Other Grapheme Extend (OGr_Ext)
Other ID Continue (OIDC)
Other ID Start (OIDS)
Other Lowercase (OLower)
Other Math (OMath)
Other Uppercase (OUpper)
Prepended Concatenation Mark (PCM)
Pattern Syntax (Pat_Syn)
Pattern White Space (Pat_WS)
Quotation Mark (QMark)
Regional Indicator (RI)
Radical (Radical)
Sentence Break (SB) Upper
Soft Dotted (SD)
Sentence Terminal (STerm)
Terminal Punctuation (Term)
Unified Ideograph (UIdeo)
Variation Selector (VS)
Word Break (WB) Alphabetic Letter
White Space (WSpace)
XID Continue (XIDC)
XID Start (XIDS)
Expands On NFC (XO_NFC)
Expands On NFD (XO_NFD)
Expands On NFKC (XO_NFKC)
Expands On NFKD (XO_NFKD)
Bidi Paired Bracket (bpb) Glyph for U+01CB Latin Capital Letter N with Small Letter J
Bidi Paired Bracket Type (bpt) None
East Asian Width (ea) neutral
Hangul Syllable Type (hst) Not Applicable
ISO 10646 Comment (isc)
Joining Group (jg) No_Joining_Group
Joining Type (jt) Non Joining
Line Break (lb) Alphabetic
Numeric Type (nt) none
Numeric Value (nv) not a number
Simple Case Folding (scf) Glyph for U+01CC Latin Small Letter Nj
Script Extension (scx)
Vertical Orientation (vo) R