Latin Small Letter N With Tilde
Part of Accented Latin Letters
On Windows, hold Alt and type 0241 on the numeric keypad to insert latin small letter n with tilde.
- Alt code
- Alt+0241
- HTML entity
- ñ
- Unicode
- U+00F1
About this symbol
The tilde over ñ began as a scribe’s shortcut. Medieval writers saved space by writing one n with a small n above it in place of nn, and over time the small n flattened into a wavy line. The sign then spread to words that never had a double n, such as señor.
Ñ is the letter of the Spanish language itself, and it is also used in Galician, Basque, Filipino and Guaraní. When a European Commission report in 1991 questioned Spain’s rule that keyboards sold there must have the key, the Real Academia Española called it a serious attack on the language.
Unicode facts
- Official name
- LATIN SMALL LETTER N WITH TILDE
- Type
- Lowercase letter
- Unicode block
- Latin-1 Supplement
- Unicode group
- Lowercase letters
- Added in
- Unicode 1.1 (1993)
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