U+04A4 Cyrillic Capital Ligature En Ghe
U+04A4 was added in Unicode version 1.1 in 1993. It belongs to the block Cyrillic in the Basic Multilingual Plane.
This character is a Uppercase Letter and is mainly used in the Cyrillic script. Its lowercase variant is 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¤ |
| Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes) | 81 30 DB 32 |
| LATEX | \cyrchar\CYRNG |
| Adobe Glyph List | Enghecyrillic |
Related Characters
Elsewhere
Complete Record
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| 1.1 (1993) | |
| CYRILLIC CAPITAL LIGATURE EN GHE | |
| CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER EN GE | |
| Cyrillic | |
| Uppercase Letter | |
| Cyrillic | |
| Left To Right | |
| Not Reordered | |
| none | |
| Cyrillic Capital Ligature En Ghe | |
| ✘ | |
| Cyrillic Small Ligature En Ghe | |
| Cyrillic Small Ligature En Ghe | |
| ✔ | |
| Cyrillic Capital Ligature En Ghe | |
| Cyrillic Capital Ligature En Ghe | |
| Cyrillic Capital Ligature En Ghe | |
| Cyrillic Capital Ligature En Ghe | |
| Cyrillic Small Ligature En Ghe | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Cyrillic Capital Ligature En Ghe | |
| Any | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| ✘ | |
| None | |
| — | |
| NA | |
| Other | |
| — | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Yes | |
| Yes | |
| Cyrillic Small Ligature En Ghe | |
| Yes | |
| Cyrillic Small Ligature En Ghe | |
| Yes | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Upper | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Alphabetic Letter | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Cyrillic Capital Ligature En Ghe | |
| None | |
| neutral | |
| Not Applicable | |
| — | |
| No_Joining_Group | |
| Non Joining | |
| Alphabetic | |
| none | |
| not a number | |
| Cyrillic Small Ligature En Ghe | |
| R |