N (Cyrillic)

Cyrillic letter H
Cyrillic letter H
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Specifications
Title	H : cyrillic capital letter en; n : cyrillic small letter en
Unicode	H : U + 041D; n : U + 043D
HTML code	N : Н or Н; n : н or н
Utf-16	H : 0x41D; n : 0x43D
Url	H :% D0% 9D; n :% D0% BD

Letters with a similar style: H · Η · ዘ · ਮ

N , n (name: en ) - the letter of all Slavic Cyrillic alphabets (14th in Bulgarian , 15th in Russian and Belarusian , 16th in Serbian , 17th in Macedonian and 18th in Ukrainian ); It is also used in the scripts of some non-Slavic peoples. In the Old and Church Slavonic alphabet it is called “Nash” (senior class) or “our” (central class). In Cyrillic it is the 15th in a row, it looks like and has a numerical value of 50; in the glagolitic account 16th, looks like and has a numerical value of 70. The origin of the Cyrillic letter is the registered capital Greek letter nu (Ν, ν) ; the verb is usually raised to one of the lowercase italic forms of the same letter. By the fourteenth century (although not universally), the crossbar in the N-shaped Cyrillic form of the letter H turned slightly counterclockwise, and the letter acquired its current form (with which it entered the civil script , likened to the Latin H ); however, sometimes in the Church Slavonic editions (especially in the heading ligature ) and the southern Slavs (in the standard manuscript of the Serbs and Montenegrins) the old N-type mark is preserved. The rotation of the crossbar N → H occurred simultaneously with the conversion of H → I, so that there was never a conflict due to the coincidence of two letters; however, in a number of handwritings and even typographic fonts, the difference between them is hardly perceptible ^[1] . Otherwise, the shape of the letter H was quite stable, only in the bosanica the N-shaped old style “straightened”, acquiring right angles instead of sharp, and began to look like a ґ with an upper beak as long as the bottom line.

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Pronunciation

In the Old Slavonic language, the letter H could be pronounced firmly and softly; in the latter case, it could be equipped with a handle from above or a hook from above to the right (which looked like the later letter Ҥ , which is a ligature from Н and Г and has a different meaning: not a soft [n '], but a sound like English ng ). The same property of the double pronunciation [n] / [n '] is preserved in most Slavic languages, including Russian ; in Serbian , for the soft version, Vuk Karadzic introduced a special style Њ , which later also entered the Macedonian alphabet.

So, in Russian, the letter n denotes a sonorous nasal (front-, middle- or rear-lingual) sound: hard [n] or soft [n ']. The mild pronunciation on the letter is noted by the subsequent letters e , e , and , u , i , b ; often n is pronounced softly also in front of soft consonants, especially hissing: tip (ko [n'ch '] ik), racer (go [n'sh':] ik) and others. In some borrowings, however, the combination is not pronounced firmly: pince (pen [ne]), Internet (inter [ne] t). In some cases, the difference between [n] and [n '] is meaningful: a horse - a horse, a bank - a bathhouse.

Use

N - intro in the book "Three Centuries" of 1912

Uppercase “N” is the symbol of Newton (units of measure of force in the SI system).

Lowercase “n” is the abbreviation for the fractional prefix nano- (for example: nV - nanovolt, 10 ⁻⁹ volts).

Notes

↑ Now, for scientific and advertising purposes, fonts with an N-shaped letter H and an H-shaped letter I are sometimes used for antiquity, the use of which is sometimes confusing: if only single words or even letters are highlighted with such a font, then understand that but the sign H is not always easy, if not impossible.

Literature

Bulich S.K. ,. N // Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary : in 86 volumes (82 volumes and 4 additional). - SPb. , 1890-1907.
Karsky E.F. Slavic Cyril Paleography / Res. ed. Acad. V.I. Borkovsky . - 2nd ed., Facsimile . - L., M. (fax.): From the Academy of Sciences of the USSR; from the "Science" (fax.), 1928, 1979 (fax.). - S. 195. - 494 p. - 2700 copies.

Links

N // Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary : in 86 volumes (82 volumes and 4 additional). - SPb. , 1890-1907.

[1] Now, for scientific and advertising purposes, fonts with an N-shaped letter H and an H-shaped letter I are sometimes used for antiquity, the use of which is sometimes confusing: if only single words or even letters are highlighted with such a font, then understand that but the sign H is not always easy, if not impossible.