ñ

Technical information

Symbol	ñ
Name	Latin small letter n with tilde
Unicode number	U+00F1
Category	Latin-1 Supplement 7. Letters

Description

The Unicode character ñ, or U+00F1, is known as the "Latin Small Letter N with Tilde". It is part of the "Latin-1 Supplement" block and falls under the "Lowercase Letter" category in the Unicode standard. This character is predominantly used in the Spanish language to represent a palatal nasal sound, similar to the "ny" sound in the English word "canyon". It can also be found in other languages, such as Galician, Filipino, Basque, and others that have been influenced by Spanish. Its visual appearance is a lowercase "n" with a tilde (~) on top.

Encoding

HTML Entity	ñ
HTML Entity (hex)	ñ
HTML Entity (named)	ñ
URL Escape Code	%C3%B1
UTF-8 (hex)	0xC3 0xB1
UTF-8 (binary)	1100001110110001
UTF-16	0x00F1
UTF-32	0x000000F1

Source Code

C, C++, and Java	"\u00F1"
CSS Code	\00F1
JavaScript	"\u00F1"
Perl	\x{00F1}
Python 2	u"\u00F1"
Python 3	\u00F1
Ruby	\u{00F1}

Preview

This Unicode character looks like this ñ in sentence and in bold like this ñ and in italic like this ñ.

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HTML Forms and Input

input

disabled input

input-group

select

button

Code examples in HTML and CSS

<span>&#241;</span>

span {
    content: "\00F1";
}

The symbol in different fonts

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