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Nは、ラテン文字(アルファベット)の14番目の文字。小文字は n。ギリシャ文字の Ν ν (ニュー) に由来し、キリル文字の Н н と同系の文字である。
2つの字形が使われる。
この文字が表す音素は、「歯茎鼻音」/n/ ないしその類似音である。
鼻音を代表する子音字として用いられることも多く、後続の子音に同化した同器官的鼻音になりやすい。
フランス語では、同じ単語内の直前に母音があり、直後が母音(発音しない e は除く)か n でなければ、直前の母音を同化し鼻母音にする。このとき、/n/ は発音しない。
ただしリエゾン(「母音+n(語境界)母音」)の場合、/n/ は発音され、鼻母音化も保たれる。
「母音+nn+母音」で鼻母音化が起こるかどうかは語による。
これらの振る舞いは m と同様である。
英語では、軟口蓋音(k・g)に先行する場合、同化され [ŋ] となる。ただし ng は二重音字として2文字で [ŋ] を表すこともある。
大文字 | Unicode | JIS X 0213 | 文字参照 | 小文字 | Unicode | JIS X 0213 | 文字参照 | 備考 |
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N | U+004E |
1-3-46 | N N |
n | U+006E |
1-3-78 | n n |
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N | U+FF2E |
1-3-46 | N N |
n | U+FF4E |
1-3-78 | n n |
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ウィクショナリーにNの項目があります。 |
ウィクショナリーにnの項目があります。 |
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Cursive script 'n' and capital 'N'
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N (named en /ˈɛn/[1]) is the fourteenth letter in the ISO basic Latin alphabet.
One of the most common hieroglyphs, snake, was used in Egyptian writing to stand for a sound like the English ⟨J⟩, because the Egyptian word for "snake" was djet. It is speculated by many 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 |
Phoenician Nun |
Etruscan N |
Greek Nu |
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N represents a dental or alveolar nasal in virtually all languages that use the Latin alphabet, and in the International Phonetic Alphabet. A common digraph with 'n' is 'ng', which represents a velar nasal in a variety of languages, usually positioned word-finally in English. Often, before a velar plosive (as in ink or jungle), 'n' alone represents a velar nasal. In Italian and French, 'gn' represents a palatal nasal (/ɲ/). The Portuguese and Vietnamese spelling for this sound is 'nh', while Spanish and a few other languages use the letter 'ñ'. In English, 'n' is generally silent when it is preceded by an 'm' at the end of words, as in hymn; however, 'n' is pronounced in this combination when occurring word medially, as in hymnal.
'n' is the sixth most common letter and the second-most commonly used consonant in the English language (after 't').
In mathematics, the italic form (n) is the common symbol for a variable quantity, especially one which represents an integer. is often used to refer to the set of natural numbers.
In statistics, the italic form (n) is used to denote the number of observations or replicates included in a statistical sample.
In chemistry, N represents the element Nitrogen. In biochemistry, N is the one-letter code symbol for the amino acid asparagine. It is also the symbol for the SI unit of force, the newton.
Character | N | n | ||
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Unicode name | LATIN CAPITAL LETTER N | LATIN SMALL LETTER N | ||
Encodings | decimal | hex | decimal | hex |
Unicode | 78 | U+004E | 110 | U+006E |
UTF-8 | 78 | 4E | 110 | 6E |
Numeric character reference | N | N | n | n |
EBCDIC family | 213 | D5 | 149 | 95 |
ASCII 1 | 78 | 4E | 110 | 6E |
NATO phonetic | Morse code |
November | –· |
Signal flag | Flag semaphore | Braille |
The ISO basic Latin alphabet
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Aa | Bb | Cc | Dd | Ee | Ff | Gg | Hh | Ii | Jj | Kk | Ll | Mm | Nn | Oo | Pp | Rr | Ss | Tt | Uu | Vv | Ww | Xx | Yy | Zz | ||
Letter N with diacritics
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Ńń | Ǹǹ | Ňň | Ññ | Ṅṅ | Ņņ | Ṇṇ | Ṋṋ | Ṉṉ | N̈n̈ | Ɲɲ | Ƞƞ | Ŋŋ | Ꞑꞑ | ᵰ | ᶇ | ɳ | ȵ | |||||||||
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リンク元 | 「例数」「number of experiment」 |
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