N (kana)

"ン" redirects here. Not to be confused with So (kana) ("ソ").

"ん" redirects here. Not to be confused with E (kana) ("え").

Character of the Japanese writing system

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transliteration| n, (m),(ng)
hiragana origin| 无
katakana origin| 尓
spelling kana| おしまいのン Oshimai no "n"
unicode| U+3093, U+30F3
braille|
kana gojūon

| wa| ra| ya| ma| ha| na| ta| sa| ka| a

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wi| ri| (yi)| mi| hi| ni| chi| shi| ki| i
(wu)| ru| yu| mu| fu| nu| tsu| su| ku| u
we| re| (ye)| me| he| ne| te| se| ke| e
wo| ro| yo| mo| ho| no| to| so| ko| o
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Kana modifiers and marks

* sokuonfu (gemination)
* yōon (palatalization)
* chōonpu (vowel lengthener)
* Iteration marks
* dakuten/handakuten (voiced & semi-voiced marks)

Multi-syllabic kana

* iu
* kashiko
* koto
* sama
* shite
* toki
* tomo
* nari
* mairasesoro
* yori

* v
* t
* e

ん, in hiragana or ン in katakana, is one of the Japanese kana, which each represent one mora. ん is the only kana that does not end in a vowel sound (although in certain cases the vowel ending of kana, such as す, is unpronounced). The kana for mu, む/ム, was originally used for the n sound as well, while ん was originally a hentaigana used for both n and mu. In the 1900 Japanese script reforms, hentaigana were officially declared obsolete and ん was officially declared a kana to represent the n sound.

In addition to being the only kana not ending with a vowel sound, it is also the only kana that does not begin any words in standard Japanese (other than foreign loan words such as "Ngorongoro", which is transcribed as ンゴロンゴロ) (see Shiritori). Some regional dialects of Japanese feature words beginning with ん, as do the Ryukyuan languages (which are usually written in the Japanese writing system), in which words starting with ン are common, such as the Okinawan word for miso, nnsu (transcribed as ンース). In the Ainu language, ン is interchangeable with the small katakana ㇴ as a final n.

The kana is followed by an apostrophe in some systems of transliteration whenever it precedes a vowel or a y- kana, so as to prevent confusion with other kana. However, like every other kana besides yōon, it represents an entire mora, so its pronunciation is, in practice, as close to "nn" as "n". The pronunciation can also change depending on what sounds surround it. These are a few of the ways it can change:

* [n] (before n, t, d, r, ts, and z)
* [m] (before m, p and b)
* [ŋ] (before k and g)
* [ɲ] (before ni, ch and j)
* [ɴ] (at the end of utterances)
* [ɯ͍̃] (before vowels, palatal approximants (y), consonants h, f, s, sh and w)
* [ĩ] (after the vowel i if another vowel, palatal approximant or consonant f, s, sh, h or w follows.)

Form  | Rōmaji | Hiragana | Katakana

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Normal n (ん)  | n | ん  | ン

n̄[citation needed] | んん
んー  | ンン

Other additional forms

Form (nw-) | Rōmaji | Hiragana | Katakana

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nwa | んわ  | ンワ  | Nwankwo Kanu (ンワンクウォ・カヌ Nwankuwo Kanu)
nwi | んうぃ  | ンウィ  | Nwisd (ンウィスド Nwisudo)
nwu | んうぅ  | ンウゥ  |
nwe | んうぇ  | ンウェ  | Nwenaing (ンウェナイング Nwenaingu)
nwo | んうぉ  | ンウォ  | Nwoya District (ンウォヤ・ディストリクト Nwoya Disutorikuto)

## Stroke order[edit]

Stroke order in writing ん | Stroke order in writing ン

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Stroke order in writing ん Stroke order in writing ン

## Other communicative representations[edit]

Japanese radiotelephony alphabet | Wabun code

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おしまいのン
Oshimai no "N" |  ▄ ▄▄▄ ▄ ▄▄▄ ▄ ⓘ

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Japanese Navy Signal Flag | Japanese semaphore | Japanese manual syllabary (fingerspelling)  | Braille dots-356
Japanese Braille

* Full Braille representation

ん / ン in Japanese Braille:

* Computer encodings

Character information  Preview | ん | ン | ﾝ | 𛅧

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Unicode name  | HIRAGANA LETTER N  | KATAKANA LETTER N  | HALFWIDTH KATAKANA LETTER N  | KATAKANA LETTER SMALL N
Encodings | decimal | hex | dec | hex | dec | hex | dec | hex
Unicode | 12435 | U+3093 | 12531 | U+30F3 | 65437 | U+FF9D | 110951 | U+1B167
UTF-8 | 227 130 147 | E3 82 93 | 227 131 179 | E3 83 B3 | 239 190 157 | EF BE 9D | 240 155 133 167 | F0 9B 85 A7
UTF-16 | 12435 | 3093 | 12531 | 30F3 | 65437 | FF9D | 55340 56679 | D82C DD67
Numeric character reference | &#12435; | &#x3093; | &#12531; | &#x30F3; | &#65437; | &#xFF9D; | &#110951; | &#x1B167;
Shift JIS[1] | 130 241 | 82 F1 | 131 147 | 83 93 | 221 | DD |  |
EUC-JP[2] | 164 243 | A4 F3 | 165 243 | A5 F3 | 142 221 | 8E DD |  |
GB 18030[3] | 164 243 | A4 F3 | 165 243 | A5 F3 | 132 49 155 55 | 84 31 9B 37 | 147 54 134 53 | 93 36 86 35
EUC-KR[4] / UHC[5] | 170 243 | AA F3 | 171 243 | AB F3 |  |  |  |
Big5 (non-ETEN kana)[6] | 198 247 | C6 F7 | 199 173 | C7 AD |  |  |  |
Big5 (ETEN / HKSCS)[7] | 199 122 | C7 7A | 199 239 | C7 EF |  |  |  |

N is the only Katakana without a circled form in Unicode.

## References[edit]

Look up ん or ン in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

* Oguri, Saori; László, Tony (2005). Darling no atamannaka. Tokyo: Media Factory. ISBN 4-8401-1226-6.

1. ^ Unicode Consortium (2015-12-02) [1994-03-08]. "Shift-JIS to Unicode".
2. ^ Unicode Consortium; IBM. "EUC-JP-2007". International Components for Unicode.
3. ^ Standardization Administration of China (SAC) (2005-11-18). GB 18030-2005: Information Technology—Chinese coded character set.
4. ^ Unicode Consortium; IBM. "IBM-970". International Components for Unicode.
5. ^ Steele, Shawn (2000). "cp949 to Unicode table". Microsoft / Unicode Consortium.
6. ^ Unicode Consortium (2015-12-02) [1994-02-11]. "BIG5 to Unicode table (complete)".
7. ^ van Kesteren, Anne. "big5". Encoding Standard. WHATWG.

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