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Glyph for U+04A4
Source: Noto Sans

U+04A4 Cyrillic Capital Ligature En Ghe

U+04A4 was added in Unicode version 1.1 in 1993. It belongs to the block U+0400 to U+04FF Cyrillic in the U+0000 to U+FFFF Basic Multilingual Plane.

This character is a Uppercase Letter and is mainly used in the Cyrillic script. Its lowercase variant is Glyph for U+04A5 Cyrillic Small Ligature En Ghe.

The glyph is not a composition. 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+04A4 forms with similar adjacent characters prevents a line break inside it.

The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:

En-ge (Ҥ ҥ; italics: Ҥ ҥ) is a letter of the Cyrillic script used only in non-Slavic languages. The shape of the letter originated as a ligature of the Cyrillic letters en (Н н) and ge (Г г), but en-ge is used as a separate letter in alphabets.

En-ge is used in the alphabets of the Altai languages, Meadow Mari, Tundra Yukaghir (except in some Saint Petersburg publications, where it is substituted with En with hook) and Yakut. In all of these languages, it represents the voiced velar nasal /ŋ/, like the pronunciation of ⟨ng⟩ in "sing".

En-ge was also used in two 19th-century alphabets for Aleut.

In certain Old Slavonic manuscripts, a character of the same or similar shape could be used to represent palatalized /nʲ/, a role similar to modern Serbian/Macedonian letter nje (Њ њ). These manuscripts also may contain similarly built characters for palatalized Д, З, Л and Р (d, z, l, and r).

Ҥ is romanized using Ṅ, Ng, or even Ŋ.

Representations

System Representation
Nº 1188
UTF-8 D2 A4
UTF-16 04 A4
UTF-32 00 00 04 A4
URL-Quoted %D2%A4
HTML hex reference Ҥ
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake Ò¤
LATEX \cyrchar\CYRNG
Adobe Glyph List Enghecyrillic

Related Characters

Elsewhere

Complete Record

Property Value
Age (age) 1.1 (1993)
Unicode Name (na) CYRILLIC CAPITAL LIGATURE EN GHE
Unicode 1 Name (na1) CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER EN GE
Block (blk) Cyrillic
General Category (gc) Uppercase Letter
Script (sc) Cyrillic
Bidirectional Category (bc) Left To Right
Combining Class (ccc) Not Reordered
Decomposition Type (dt) none
Decomposition Mapping (dm) Glyph for U+04A4 Cyrillic Capital Ligature En Ghe
Lowercase (Lower) ✘
Simple Lowercase Mapping (slc) Glyph for U+04A5 Cyrillic Small Ligature En Ghe
Lowercase Mapping (lc) Glyph for U+04A5 Cyrillic Small Ligature En Ghe
Uppercase (Upper) ✔
Simple Uppercase Mapping (suc) Glyph for U+04A4 Cyrillic Capital Ligature En Ghe
Uppercase Mapping (uc) Glyph for U+04A4 Cyrillic Capital Ligature En Ghe
Simple Titlecase Mapping (stc) Glyph for U+04A4 Cyrillic Capital Ligature En Ghe
Titlecase Mapping (tc) Glyph for U+04A4 Cyrillic Capital Ligature En Ghe
Case Folding (cf) Glyph for U+04A5 Cyrillic Small Ligature En Ghe
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+04A4 Cyrillic Capital Ligature En Ghe
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+04A5 Cyrillic Small Ligature En Ghe
NFKC Quick Check (NFKC_QC) Yes
NFKC_SCF (NFKC_SCF) Glyph for U+04A5 Cyrillic Small Ligature En Ghe
NFKD Quick Check (NFKD_QC) Yes
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+04A4 Cyrillic Capital Ligature En Ghe
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+04A5 Cyrillic Small Ligature En Ghe
Script Extension (scx)
Vertical Orientation (vo) R