En (Cyrillic)

Cyrillic letter En
Numeric value:	50
The Cyrillic script
Slavic letters
А Б В Г Ґ Д Ђ Ѓ Е Ѐ Ё Є Ж З З́ Ѕ И Ѝ І Ї Й Ј К Л Љ М Н Њ О П Р С С́ Т Ћ Ќ У Ў Ф Х Ц Ч Џ Ш Щ Ъ Ы Ь Э Ю Я
Non-Slavic letters
Ӑ А̄ А̊ А̃ Ӓ Ӓ̄ Ә Ә́ Ә̃ Ӛ Ӕ Ғ Г̧ Г̑ Г̄ Ҕ Ӻ Ӷ Ԁ Ԃ Ꚃ Ꚁ Ꚉ Ԫ Ԭ Ӗ Е̄ Е̃ Ё̄ Є̈ Ӂ Җ Ꚅ Ӝ Ԅ Ҙ Ӟ Ԑ Ԑ̈ Ӡ Ԇ Ӣ И̃ Ҋ Ӥ Қ Ӄ Ҡ Ҟ Ҝ Ԟ Ԛ Ӆ Ԯ Ԓ Ԡ Ԉ Ԕ Ӎ Ӊ Ң Ԩ Ӈ Ҥ Ԣ Ԋ О̆ О̃ О̄ Ӧ Ө Ө̄ Ӫ Ҩ Ԥ Ҧ Р̌ Ҏ Ԗ Ҫ Ԍ Ꚑ Ҭ Ꚋ Ꚍ Ԏ У̃ Ӯ Ӱ Ӱ́ Ӳ Ү Ү́ Ұ Х̑ Ҳ Ӽ Ӿ Һ Ԧ Ꚕ Ҵ Ꚏ Ҷ Ӵ Ӌ Ҹ Ꚓ Ꚗ Ꚇ Ҽ Ҿ Ы̆ Ы̄ Ӹ Ҍ Э̆ Э̄ Э̇ Ӭ Ӭ́ Ӭ̄ Ю̆ Ю̈ Ю̈́ Ю̄ Я̆ Я̄ Я̈ Ԙ Ԝ Ӏ
Archaic letters
Ꙁ Ꙃ Ꙅ Ꙇ Ꙉ Ҁ Ѻ ОУ Ꙋ Ѡ Ѽ Ꙍ Ѿ Ꙏ Ѣ Ꙑ Ꙓ Ꙕ Ꙗ Ѥ Ѧ Ꙙ Ѫ Ꙛ Ѩ Ꙝ Ѭ Ѯ Ѱ Ѳ Ѵ Ѷ Ꙟ Ꙡ Ꙣ Ꙥ Ꙧ Ꙩ Ꙫ Ꙭ ꙮ Ꚙ Ꚛ
List of Cyrillic letters Cyrillic digraphs

En (Н н; italics: Н н) is a letter of the Cyrillic script.

It commonly represents the alveolar nasal consonant /n/, like the pronunciation of ⟨n⟩ in "neat".

History

The Cyrillic letter En was derived from the Greek letter Nu (Ν ν).

The name of En in the Early Cyrillic alphabet was нашь (našĭ), meaning "ours".

In the Cyrillic numeral system, En had a value of 50.

Form

The capital Cyrillic letter En looks very similar to the capital Latin letter H but, as with most Cyrillic letters, the lowercase form is simply a smaller version of the uppercase.

By exception, the Romanian Cyrillic alphabet used N and ɴ, instead of Н and н.

Coincidentally, the Cyrillic letter I ⟨И⟩, which looks like a reversed Latin ⟨N⟩, was derived from the Greek letter Eta ⟨Η⟩ while the Cyrillic letter En ⟨Н⟩ was derived from the Greek letter Nu ⟨Ν⟩ which looks like a reversed Cyrillic ⟨И⟩.

Usage

As used in the alphabets of various languages, En represents the following sounds:

• alveolar nasal consonant /n/, like the pronunciation of ⟨n⟩ in "nice"
• dental nasal consonant /n̪/, as above but with the tip of the tongue on the teeth
• palatalized alveolar nasal consonant /nʲ/, like the pronunciation of ⟨n⟩ in "onion"
• palatalized dental nasal consonant /n̪ʲ/, as above but with the tip of the tongue on the teeth
• palatal nasal consonant /ɲ/

The pronunciations shown in the table are the primary ones for each language; for details consult the articles on the languages.

Language	Position in alphabet	Pronunciation
Belarusian	15th	/n̪/, /n̪ʲ/
Bulgarian	14th	/n/, /ɲ/
Macedonian	17th	/n/
Russian	15th	/n̪/, /n̪ʲ/
Serbian	16th	/n/
Ukrainian	18th	/n̪/, /nʲ/

Related letters and other similar characters

• Ν ν : Greek letter Nu
• N n : Latin letter N
• Њ њ : Cyrillic letter Nje
• Η η : Greek letter Eta
• H h : Latin letter H
• ʜ : Latin letter small capital H

Computing codes

Character	Н		н
Unicode name	CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER EN		CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER EN
Encodings	decimal	hex	decimal	hex
Unicode	1053	U+041D	1085	U+043D
UTF-8	208 157	D0 9D	208 189	D0 BD
Numeric character reference	Н	Н	н	н
KOI8-R and KOI8-U	238	EE	206	CE
Code page 855	213	D5	212	D4
Code page 866	141	8D	173	AD
Windows-1251	205	CD	237	ED
ISO-8859-5	189	BD	221	DD
Macintosh Cyrillic	141	8D	237	ED

External links

• The dictionary definition of Н at Wiktionary
• The dictionary definition of н at Wiktionary