n

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.

(NanoSecond) See space/time.

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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.

Social security number. See social security.

For other uses, see N (disambiguation).

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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 /ɛn/) is spelled en.^[1]

Contents 1 History of the forms 2 Usage 3 Codes for computing 4 See also 5 References

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.

Egyptian hieroglyph for 'J'	Proto-Semitic N	Phoenician N	Etruscan N	Greek Nu

Usage

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).

Codes for computing

Alternative representations of N

NATO phonetic	Morse code
November	–·

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

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• Ń
• Ñ
• Ň
• П, п (П, п) - Pe (Cyrillic)
• Н, н (Н, н) - En (Cyrillic)
• Ν, ν - Nu (Greek)

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 ŃńǸǹŇňÑñṄṅŅņṆṇṊṋṈṉN̈n̈ƝɲȠƞᵰᶇɳȵ Two-letter combinations Na Nb Nc Nd Ne Nf Ng Nh Ni Nj Nk Nl Nm Nn No Np Nq Nr Ns Nt Nu Nv Nw Nx Ny Nz NA NB NC ND NE NF NG NH NI NJ NK NL NM NN NO NP NQ NR NS NT NU NV NW NX NY NZ Letter-digit & Digit-letter combinations     N0 N1 N2 N3 N4 N5 N6 N7 N8 N9     0N 1N 2N 3N 4N 5N 6N 7N 8N 9N     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.

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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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