U00D1

U+00D1, commonly written as LATIN CAPITAL LETTER N WITH TILDE, is a Unicode code point representing the character Ñ. It is part of the Latin-1 Supplement block and has a lowercase counterpart, U+00F1, LATIN SMALL LETTER N WITH TILDE. In digital text, the uppercase form is often rendered as Ñ and the lowercase form as ñ. In UTF-8, U+00D1 is encoded as 0xC3 0x91, while U+00F1 is 0xC3 0xB1. In HTML, the character can be represented with the entity Ñ for uppercase and ñ for lowercase, or by its numeric code Ñ for uppercase.

Ñ is a distinct letter in several languages, most prominently Spanish, where it represents a palatal nasal sound /ɲ/. It is also used in other languages such as Galician, and in various indigenous languages of the Americas, including Aymara and Quechua, among others. In these languages Ñ often functions as a separate phoneme or letter within their alphabets, contributing to a range of consonant sounds not found in the basic Latin alphabet.

Historically, Ñ emerged from a ligature or abbreviation of the letters n and the tilde in medieval Spanish, gradually developing into a separate letter with its own place in the alphabet. Today it continues to be an integral part of several orthographies and typographic practices, symbolizing a distinct sound and linguistic identity in the languages that use it.