N

See also: Appendix:Variations of "n"

N U+004E, N
LATIN CAPITAL LETTER N
M
[U+004D]
Basic Latin O
[U+004F]
U+FF2E, N
FULLWIDTH LATIN CAPITAL LETTER N

[U+FF2D]
Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms
[U+FF2F]

Translingual

Letter

N (lower case n)

  1. The fourteenth letter of the basic modern Latin alphabet.

See also

Symbol

N

  1. (chemistry) Symbol for nitrogen.
  2. (metrology) Symbol for newton, the SI unit of force.
  3. (biochemistry) IUPAC 1-letter abbreviation for aspargine
  4. (physics) electron number
  5. (music) Neapolitan chord (usually in first inversion, therefore followed by a superscript six)

See also

Other representations of N:


English

Etymology 1

Letter

N (upper case, lower case n, plural Ns or N's)

  1. The fourteenth letter of the English alphabet, called en and written in the Latin script.
See also

Number

N (upper case, lower case n)

  1. The ordinal number fourteenth, derived from this letter of the English alphabet, called en and written in the Latin script.

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɛn/
  • Rhymes: -ɛn
(file)
(file)

Abbreviation

N

  1. (military) Navy
  2. north (see also n)
  3. (linguistics) noun
  4. (chess) knight
Translations

Afar

Letter

N

  1. The eighteenth letter in the Afar alphabet.

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American Sign Language

Letter

(transliteration needed) (Stokoe N)

  1. The letter N

Azerbaijani

Letter

N upper case (lower case n)

  1. The twentieth letter of the Azerbaijani alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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Chinese

Alternative forms

Etymology

Likely from the mathematical usage of n to denote an arbitrary number.

Pronunciation

Numeral

N

  1. countless, several
    點解N電話 [Cantonese, trad.]
    点解N电话 [Cantonese, simp.]
    Dim2 gaai2 ngo5 daa2 zo2 en1 ci3 dou1 mou5 jan4 zip3 din6 waa6-2 ge2? [Jyutping]
    How come I called several times but no one picked up the phone?
    N美劇英語 [MSC, trad.]
    N美剧英语 [MSC, simp.]
    From:
    zhuīle ēn bù měijù, yīngyǔ hái chāo làn... [Pinyin]
    You've binged countless American TV dramas, but your English still sucks…

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Dutch

Pronunciation

  • (letter name): IPA(key): /ɛn/
  • (file)

Letter

N (capital, lowercase n)

  1. The fourteenth letter of the Dutch alphabet.

Abbreviation

N

  1. Abbreviation of noord; north

See also

  • Previous letter: M
  • Next letter: O

Esperanto

Letter

N (upper case, lower case n)

  1. The eighteenth letter of the Esperanto alphabet, called no or en and written in the Latin script.

See also

Abbreviation

N

  1. Abbreviation of nordo (north).
  2. (text messaging) Abbreviation of ni (we).

Finnish

Letter

N (upper case, lower case n)

  1. The fourteenth letter of the Finnish alphabet, called än or en and written in the Latin script.

See also

Abbreviation

N

  1. non sine laude approbatur

French

Pronunciation

  • (letter): IPA(key): /ɛn/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -ɛn

Abbreviation

N

  1. Abbreviation of nord.

Letter

N

  1. The fourteenth letter of the French alphabet.

Galician

Abbreviation

N

  1. norte (north)

Antonyms

  • (north): S

German

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʔɛn/
  • (file)

Letter

N (upper case, lower case n)

  1. The fourteenth letter of the German alphabet.

Abbreviation

N

  1. Abbreviation of Nord; north

Ido

Pronunciation

Letter

N (lower case n)

  1. The fourteenth letter of the Ido alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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Italian

Pronunciation

  • (name of letter) IPA(key): /ˈɛnne/
  • (phoneme) IPA(key): /n/

Letter

N m or f (invariable, lower case n)

  1. The twelfth letter of the Italian alphabet, called enne and written in the Latin script.

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Latvian

Etymology

Proposed in 1908 as part of the new Latvian spelling by the scientific commission headed by K. Mīlenbahs, which was accepted and began to be taught in schools in 1909. Prior to that, Latvian had been written in German Fraktur, and sporadically in Cyrillic.

Pronunciation

(file)

Letter

N

N (upper case, lower case n)

  1. The twenty-first letter of the Latvian alphabet, called en and written in the Latin script.

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Malay

Pronunciation

  • (Name of letter) IPA(key): [ɛn]
  • (Phoneme) IPA(key): [n]

Letter

N

  1. The fourteenth letter of the Malay alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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Portuguese

Letter

N (upper case, lower case n)

  1. The fourteenth letter of the Portuguese alphabet, written in the Latin script.

See also

Noun

N m (uncountable)

  1. Abbreviation of norte.

Romanian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ne/, /en/

Letter

N (lowercase n)

  1. The seventeenth letter of the Romanian alphabet representing the phoneme /n/. Preceded by M and followed by O.

Saanich

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /n/, /nʼ/

Letter

N

  1. The twenty-first letter of the Saanich alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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Skolt Sami

Pronunciation

  • (phoneme) IPA(key): /n/

Letter

N (lower case n)

  1. The twenty-second letter of the Skolt Sami alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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Slovene

Pronunciation

Letter

N (capital, lowercase n)

  1. The 15th letter of the Slovene alphabet. Preceded by M and followed by O.

Somali

Pronunciation

  • (phoneme): IPA(key): /n/
  • (letter name): IPA(key): /nʉn/

Letter

N upper case (lower case n)

  1. The nineteenth letter of the Somali alphabet, called nun and written in the Latin script.

Usage notes

  1. The nineteenth letter of the Somali alphabet, which follows Arabic abjad order. It is preceded by M and followed by W.

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Spanish

Letter

N (upper case, lower case n)

  1. The 14th letter of the Spanish alphabet.

Abbreviation

N

  1. Abbreviation of norte; north

Turkish

Letter

N (upper case, lower case n)

  1. The seventeenth letter of the Turkish alphabet, called ne and written in the Latin script.

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Vietnamese

Pronunciation

  • (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [ʔɛ˧˧ nəː˨˩], [ʔɛn˧˧ nəː˨˩], [nəː˨˩ tʰəp̚˧˦], [nəː˨˩]
  • (Huế) IPA(key): [ʔɛ˧˧ nəː˦˩], [ʔɛŋ˧˧ nəː˦˩], [nəː˦˩ tʰəp̚˦˧˥], [nəː˦˩]
  • (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA(key): [ʔɛ˧˧ nəː˨˩], [ʔɛŋ˧˧ nəː˨˩], [nəː˨˩ tʰəp̚˦˥], [nəː˨˩]
  • Phonetic: e nờ, en nờ, nờ thấp, nờ

Letter

N (upper case, lower case n)

  1. The sixteenth letter of the Vietnamese alphabet, called e-nờ, en-nờ, nờ thấp, or nờ and written in the Latin script.

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Zulu

Letter

N (upper case, lower case n)

  1. The fourteenth letter of the Zulu alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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