En with hook (Ӈ ӈ; italics: Ӈ ӈ) is a letter of the Cyrillic script. Its form is derived from the Cyrillic letter En (Н н) by adding a hook to the right leg.
En with hook commonly represents the voiced velar nasal , like the pronunciation of in "sing", in Uralic languages.
Usage En with hook is used in the alphabets of a number of languages of Siberia, including all the Chukotko-Kamchatkan and Samoyedic languages:
Chukotko-Kamchatkan languages Chukchi Koryak Kerek Alyutor Itelmen
Uralic languages
Several Uralic languages use the en with hook.
These include:
Samoyedic languages Enets Tundra Nenets Forest Nenets Nganasan Selkup
Other Uralic languages Kildin Sami Ter Sami Khanty Mansi
Tungusic languages Even Evenki Nanai Negidal Oroch Orok Udege Ulch
Eskimo–Aleut languages Aleut Chaplino dialect
Other languages Ket Nivkh
Computing codes
En with Hook is encoded in Unicode as U+04C7 (for the capital) and U+04C8 (for the lowercase).
See also Ң ң : Cyrillic letter En with descender Ӊ ӊ : Cyrillic letter En with tail Ҥ ҥ : Cyrillic ligature En Ge Ԩ ԩ : Cyrillic letter En with left hook Ŋ ŋ : Latin letter Eng Ꜧ ꜧ : Latin letter Heng Cyrillic characters in Unicode
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