004E

004E is the hexadecimal notation for the Unicode code point U+004E, which corresponds to the Latin capital letter “N”. In the Unicode Standard the code point is classified within the Basic Latin block, the first 128 characters of the repertoire that are identical to the original ASCII set. Its decimal value is 78, and it occupies the seventh position in the second row of the ASCII table (the row labeled “N”).

The character is used in numerous writing systems that employ the Latin alphabet, appearing in languages such as English, French, German, Spanish, and many others. It serves as the nineteenth letter of the modern English alphabet and is employed in standard orthographies, abbreviations, and scientific notations.

In Unicode data files the entry for 004E includes the name “LATIN CAPITAL LETTER N”, a general category of “Uppercase Letter” (Lu), a combining class of 0, and a bidirectional class of “Left-to-Right”. The character’s primary numeric value is undefined, as it does not represent a digit. It has a single case‑mapping counterpart, the lowercase “n” (U+006E).

Encoding the character in common Unicode transformation formats yields the following byte sequences: 0x4E in UTF‑8, 0x004E in UTF‑16 (big‑endian) or 0x4E00 in UTF‑32. In legacy encodings that are supersets of ASCII, such as ISO‑8859‑1 and Windows‑1252, the same single byte 0x4E is used.

The glyph design of 004E varies across typefaces but typically consists of a vertical stem with a diagonal stroke extending from the upper left to the lower right, forming the familiar “N” shape. The character is also used as a symbolic abbreviation in contexts such as chemistry (nitrogen, symbol N) and mathematics (named sets, e.g., ℕ for natural numbers, though a distinct Unicode character exists for that purpose).