n

Unicode name	LATIN SMALL LETTER N
Codepoint	U+006E
m ← Basic Latin → o

See also ո, ռ, ⴖ, and Appendix:Variations of "n"

Translingual

Wikipedia

Etymology

From the old Latin N, from the Greek Ν (nu), from an archaic reversed Greek N, from the Phoenician symbol; possibly from an earlier Egyptian hieroglyph of a serpent.

Letter

n lower case (upper case N)

1. The fourteenth letter of the basic modern Latin alphabet.

Related terms

• Ŋ (eng)
• Ν (nu)
• Н (en)

See also

• (Latin script):  Aa  Bb  Cc  Dd  Ee  Ff  Gg  Hh  Ii  Jj  Kk  Ll  Mm  Nn  Oo  Pp  Qq  Rr  Ss  Tt  Uu  Vv  Ww  Xx  Yy  Zz
• (Variations of letter N):  Ńń  Ǹǹ  Ňň  Ññ  Ṅṅ  Ņņ  Ṇṇ  Ṋṋ  Ṉṉ  N̈n̈  Ɲɲ  Ƞƞ  ᵰ  ᶇ  ɳ  ȵ  ɴ  Ｎｎ  Ŋŋ  NJNjnj  NJNjnj
• Preceded by apostrophe: 'n
• Hiragana: ん
• な (na), に (ni), ぬ (nu), ね (ne), の (no)

Other representations of N:

NATO phonetic: November Morse code: –· Braille: ⠝ ASL Manual: N

Signal flag:

Semaphore:

• Letter styles
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  Capital and lowercase versions of N, in normal and italic type

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  Uppercase and lowercase N in Fraktur

Pronunciation

• IPA

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Symbol

Wikipedia

n

1. (IPA) alveolar nasal.

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English

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ɛn/, SAMPA: /En/

• Audio (US)

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Letter

n lowercase (uppercase N)

1. The fourteenth letter of the English alphabet, called en and written in the Latin script.

See also

• (Latin script letters) letter; Aa, Bb, Cc, Dd, Ee, Ff, Gg, Hh, Ii, Jj, Kk, Ll, Mm, Nn, Oo, Pp, Qq, Rr, Ss, Tt, Uu, Vv, Ww, Xx, Yy, Zz ^[edit]

Number

n lower case (upper case N)

1. The ordinal number fourteenth, derived from this letter of the English alphabet, called en and written in the Latin script.

Etymology 2

Abbreviation

n or N (See N for more abbreviations.)

1. north
2. (grammar) noun
3. (grammar) neuter gender
4. (organic chemistry) normal
5. Neutral
6. No

Translations

north

Russian: С (ru) (es)

noun

Russian: сущ (ru) (suš')

neuter

Russian: ср (ru) (sr), ср. род (ru) (sr. rod)

neutral

no

Russian: н (ru) (en)

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Azeri

Letter

n lower case (upper case N)

1. The twentieth letter of the Azeri alphabet, written in the Latin script.

See also

• (Latin script letters) hərf; Aa, Bb, Cc, Çç, Dd, Ee, Əə, Ff, Gg, Ğğ, Hh, Xx, Iı, İi, Jj, Kk, Qq, Ll, Mm, Nn, Oo, Öö, Pp, Rr, Ss, Şş, Tt, Uu, Üü, Vv, Yy, Zz ^[edit]

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Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɛn
• (letter name): IPA: /ɛn/

Letter

n (lower case, upper case N)

1. The fourteenth letter of the Dutch alphabet.

See also

• Previous letter: m
• Next letter: o

See also

• 'n

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Esperanto

Pronunciation

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Letter

n lower case (upper case N)

1. The eighteenth letter of the Esperanto alphabet, called no and written in the Latin script.

See also

• (Latin script letters) litero; Aa, Bb, Cc, Ĉĉ, Dd, Ee, Ff, Gg, Ĝĝ, Hh, Ĥĥ, Ii, Jj, Ĵĵ, Kk, Ll, Mm, Nn, Oo, Pp, Rr, Ss, Ŝŝ, Tt, Uu, Ŭŭ, Vv, Zz ^[edit]

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French

Letter

n lower case (upper case N)

1. The fourteenth letter of the French alphabet, written in the Latin script.
   • 1837, Louis Viardot, L’Ingénieux Hidalgo Don Quichotte de la Manche^{fr.Wikisource}, translation of El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Chapter I:

     Avec ces propos et d’autres semblables, le pauvre gentilhomme perdait le jugement. Il passait les nuits et se donnait la torture pour les comprendre, pour les approfondir, pour leur tirer le sens des entrailles, ce qu’Aristote lui-même n’aurait pu faire, s’il fût ressuscité tout exprès pour cela.

     With these passages and other similar ones, the poor gentleman lost his judgement. He spent his nights and tortured himself to understand them, to consider them more deeply, to take from them their deepest meaning, which Aristotle himself would not have been able to do, had he been resurrected for that very purpose.

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German

Alternative forms

• 'n

Pronunciation

• IPA: /n/

Article

n

1. (colloquial) shorthand of ein "a"

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Italian

Noun

n m. and f. inv.

1. See under N

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Japanese

Syllable

n

1. The hiragana syllable ん (n) or the katakana syllable ン (n) in Hepburn romanization.

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Portuguese

Pronunciation

• Audio (BR)

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Letter

n lower case (upper case N)

1. The fourteenth letter of the Portuguese alphabet, called ene and written in the Latin script.
   • 2003, Lya Wyler (translator), J. K. Rowling (English author), Harry Potter e a Ordem da Fênix (Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix), Rocco, page 246:

     Então continuaram a estudar enquanto o céu lá fora se tornava gradualmente mais escuro.

     Then they continued to study while the sky outside was becoming gradually darker.

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Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ne/, /en/

Letter

n (lowercase, capital N)

1. The seventeenth letter of the Romanian alphabet representing the phoneme /n/. Preceded by m and followed by o.

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Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• (phoneme) IPA: /n/

Letter

n (Cyrillic spelling н)

1. The 19th letter of the Serbo-Croatian Latin alphabet, preceded by m and followed by nj.

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Spanish

Letter

n (lower case, upper case N)

1. The 14th letter of the Spanish alphabet.

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Turkish

Letter

n lower case (upper case N)

1. The seventeenth letter of the Turkish alphabet, called ne and written in the Latin script.

See also

• (Latin script letters) harf; Aa, Bb, Cc, Çç, Dd, Ee, Ff, Gg, Ğğ, Hh, Iı, İi, Jj, Kk, Ll, Mm, Nn, Oo, Öö, Pp, Rr, Ss, Şş, Tt, Uu, Üü, Vv, Yy, Zz ^[edit]