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Dictionary: n1 or N (ĕn) pronunciation
n., pl., n's, or N's, also ns, or Ns.
  1. The 14th letter of the modern English alphabet.
  2. Any of the speech sounds represented by the letter n.
  3. The 14th in a series.
  4. Something shaped like the letter N.

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The fourteenth letter of the modern English alphabet is represented by nin [Irish, ash] in the ogham alphabet of early Ireland.

 
N, 14th letter of the alphabet. It is a usual symbol for a voiced alveolar (or dental) nasal, as in the English not. The diagraph ng represents a different sound, a voiced velar nasal, as in the English sing. The corresponding Greek letter is nu. In chemistry N is the symbol for the element nitrogen.


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N
Basic Latin alphabet
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

N is the fourteenth letter in the basic modern Latin alphabet. Its name in English (pronounced /ˈɛn/) is spelled en.[1]

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N represents the dental or alveolar nasal in virtually all languages that use the Latin alphabet. A common digraph with <n> is <ng>, which represents a velar nasal in a variety of languages, usually positioned word-finally in English. In languages like Italian and French, <gn> represents a palatal nasal (/ɲ/). The Portuguese spelling for this sound is <nh>. In English, n is silent when it is preceded by an m, in words like hymn (although it is pronounced in words such as damnation).

In the International Phonetic Alphabet, the lowercase [n] represents the alveolar nasal sound. A small capital [ɴ] represents the uvular nasal.

N is the second-most commonly used consonant in the English language (after T). It also represents the element Nitrogen (Atomic number=7)

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Alternative representations of N
NATO phonetic Morse code
November –·
ICS November.svg Semaphore November.svg ⠝
Signal flag Flag semaphore Braille

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 "&#78;" and "&#110;" for upper and lower case respectively.


See also

The Basic modern Latin alphabet
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
Letter N with diacritics

history palaeography derivations diacritics punctuation numerals Unicode list of letters ISO/IEC 646

References

  1. ^ "N" Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition (1989); Merriam-Webster's Third New International Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged (1993); "en," op. cit.

Dansk (Danish)
1.
n. - national, north(ern), new, navy, noun, det 14.bogstavet i alfabetet

2.
abbr. - neuter; neutrum, noon; middag, noun; navneord, number; nummer

Nederlands (Dutch)
noord, nummer, netto, nominatief, nieuw, normaal, Noors, november, naam, nano-, neef, middag, aantekening, (zelfstandig) naamwoord, onzijdig, neutron, stikstof, loper (bij schaken)

Français (French)
1.
n. - n (quatorzième lettre de l'alphabet), (Phon) nasale alvéolaire

2.
abbr. - (abrév) de né(e), neutre, nouveau, nominatif, midi, note, nom, nombre

Deutsch (German)
1.
n. - n

2.
abbr. - Norden, nördlich, Neu, Kern-, Substantiv, Name, Neutrum, Mittag, Note

Ελληνική (Greek)
abbr. - Βόρεια, Βόρειος, (σκάκι) ιππότης, πυρηνικός, όνομα, ουδέτερος, μεσημέρι, σημείωση, (μαθημ.) αόριστος αριθμός, η νιοστή δύναμη, (καθομ.) και
symb. - το δέκατο τρίτο γράμμα του αγγλικού αλφαβήτου, (τυπογρ.) μισό τετράγωνο, (χημεία) άζωτο

Italiano (Italian)
n, nord, sostantivo, azoto, all'ennesima potenza

Português (Portuguese)
abbr. - nome, marinha de guerra, novo, norte, setentrional, neutro, nominativo, meio-dia, substantivo, número
symb. - Newton (Fís.), algarismo romano correspondente a 90, nitrogênio (Quím.), asparagina (Bioq.), número de Avogadro (Quím.), número de nêutrons (Fís.), índice de refração

Русский (Russian)
14-ая буква англ. алфавита, север, существительное, азот

Español (Spanish)
1.
n. - decimocuarta letra del alfabeto inglés

2.
abbr. - norte, sustantivo, nitrógeno, enésimo, número o potencia indeterminada, nombre, nacido, neutro, sobrino, nuevo, nominativo, mediodía

Svenska (Swedish)
abbr. - National, north(ern), New, Navy, noun, noon, neuter, nominative, newton
symb. - kväve, Avogadros konstant (kem.)

中文(简体)(Chinese (Simplified))
1. 字母n

2. 牛顿, 记录数目

中文(繁體)(Chinese (Traditional))
1.
n. - 字母n

2.
abbr. - 牛頓, 記錄數目

한국어 (Korean)
1.
n. - 영어에서 14번째의 글자

2.
abbr. - neuter(중성) , nominative(주격의)

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - エヌ, N字形のもの, 中性子

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) الحرف الرابع عشر من الابجديه الانجليزيه (اختصار) اختصار ل : north)ern( شمال او شمالي, لمظذ محايد, name او : noun اسم (علامه) النيتروجين ni- trogen :‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮האות N, בעל צורת N, חנקן (יסוד), מספר לא-מוגדר (מתמטיקה), מספר‬
abbr. - ‮אטומי, חדש, פרש (שחמט), צפון, שם-עצם, ניוטון (יחידת-כוח)‬


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