N is the fourteenth letter in the Latin alphabet. Its name in English ( ) is spelled en.
Welcome to CWAnswers
CWAnswers is your guide to the sprawling world wide web. The directory aims to provide a useful guide made by users. You can share your knowledge as well - simply sign up and edit your first entry. For questions just contact the team at support - at - cwanswers.com.
Weblinks for N
Top 10 for N
Things about N you find nowhere else.
Select content modules
N is the fourteenth letter in the Latin alphabet. Its name in English ( ) is spelled en.
History of the forms
One of the most common snake hieroglyph was used in Egyptian writing to stand for a sound like English “J,” because the Egyptian word for “snake” was djet. It is speculated that Semitic people working in Egypt adapted hieroglyphics to create the first alphabet, and that they used the same snake symbol to represent N, because their word for “snake” may have begun with that sound. However, the name for the letter in the Phoenician, Hebrew, Aramaic and Arabic alphabets is nun, which means “fish” in some of these languages. The sound value of the letter was /n/—as in Greek, Etruscan, Latin and all modern languages.
Usage
N represents the dental or alveolar nasal in virtually all languages that use the Latin alphabet. A common digraph with
In the International Phonetic Alphabet, the lowercase 1 represents the alveolar nasal sound. A small capital 2 represents the uvular nasal.
N is the second-most commonly used consonant in the English language (after T).
Codes for computing
In Unicode the capital N is codepoint U+004E and the lower case n is U+006E.
The ASCII code for capital N is 78 and for lowercase n is 110; or in binary 01001110 and 01101110, correspondingly.
The EBCDIC code for capital N is 213 and for lowercase n is 149.
The numeric character references in HTML and XML are "N" and "n" for upper and lower case respectively.
See also
- Ń
- Ñ
- Ň
- П, п (П, п) - Pe (Cyrillic)
- Н, н (Н, н) - En (Cyrillic)
- Ν, ν - Nu (Greek)
