What is the difference between Latin Small Letter N With Cedilla and Latin Small Letter N With Left Hook?

Latin Small Letter N With Cedilla is U+0146 in the Latin Extended-A block. Latin Small Letter N With Left Hook is U+0272 in the IPA Extensions block. They are distinct Unicode codepoints and may appear visually similar depending on the font.

What is the HTML entity for Latin Small Letter N With Cedilla?

The HTML entity for Latin Small Letter N With Cedilla (U+0146) is ņ.

What is the HTML entity for Latin Small Letter N With Left Hook?

The HTML entity for Latin Small Letter N With Left Hook (U+0272) is ɲ.

Are Latin Small Letter N With Cedilla and Latin Small Letter N With Left Hook the same Unicode character?

No. Latin Small Letter N With Cedilla is U+0146 (decimal 326) and Latin Small Letter N With Left Hook is U+0272 (decimal 626). They are separate codepoints.

What are the UTF-8 encodings of Latin Small Letter N With Cedilla and Latin Small Letter N With Left Hook?

Latin Small Letter N With Cedilla (U+0146) encodes as C5 86 in UTF-8. Latin Small Letter N With Left Hook (U+0272) encodes as C9 B2 in UTF-8.

Latin Small Letter N With Cedilla vs Latin Small Letter N With Left Hook

Compare two Unicode characters side by side — encodings, HTML entities, escape sequences, and Unicode properties. Useful for distinguishing visually similar characters like hyphens and dashes, quotation marks, or homoglyphs.

Latin Small Letter N With Cedilla

U+0146

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Latin Small Letter N With Left Hook

U+0272

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Property Comparison

Property	Latin Small Letter N With Cedilla	Latin Small Letter N With Left Hook
Codepoint	`U+0146`	`U+0272`
Decimal	`326`	`626`
HTML Entity	`ņ`	`ɲ`
HTML Decimal	`ņ`	`ɲ`
HTML Hex	`ņ`	`ɲ`
UTF-8	`C5 86`	`C9 B2`
UTF-16	`01 46`	`02 72`
UTF-32	`00000146`	`00000272`
CSS Escape	`\146`	`\272`
JS Escape	`\u0146`	`\u0272`
Python Escape	`\u0146`	`\u0272`
URL Encoded	`%C5%86`	`%C9%B2`
Category	`Lowercase Letter (Ll)`	`Lowercase Letter (Ll)`
Block	`Latin Extended-A`	`IPA Extensions`
Script	`Latin`	`Latin`
Bidi Class	`L`	`L`
Unicode Version	`1.1`	`1.1`

Rows highlighted in amber differ between the two characters.

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