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Low class consonant · letter 13 of 44

ญ yo ying

ญ (yo ying) is a low-class consonant named after หญิง, “woman”. At the start of a syllable it is /j/, written y in RTGS; at the end of one it is /n/ (n).

See it in 61 fontsAll 44 consonants
ญญ หญิงyo ying · woman
Thai name
ญ หญิง · yo ying
Name word
หญิง, woman
Class
Low class
At the start of a syllable
/j/ · RTGS y
At the end of a syllable
/n/ · RTGS n
Unicode
U+0E0D · THAI CHARACTER YO YING
In HTML
ญ or ญ
Kedmanee key
Shift + P
Pattachote key
Shift + R

How it sounds

A y at the start of a syllable and an n at the end of one. Its tail runs below the line, so when a vowel sign goes underneath, fonts draw ญ without the tail to keep the two apart; ฐ does the same.

One other letter has the same sound at the start of a syllable: ย yo yak (low).

Easy to mistake for ย yo yak and ณ no nen: compare them at a large size in the grid below.

Class and tone

With no mark, a low-class letter gives the mid tone in a live syllable; in a dead one the tone is high when the vowel is short and falling when it is long. Mai ek gives falling and mai tho high.

Syllables with ญ and the vowel า
SpellingSyllableTone
No mark, live syllable (long vowel)ญาMid
No mark, dead syllable, short vowelญะHigh
No mark, dead syllable, long vowelญากFalling
Mai ekญ่าFalling
Mai thoญ้าHigh
Mai tri–not used with this class
Mai chattawa–not used with this class

The syllables show the rule, not words to learn. The tone rules explain live and dead syllables.

Words with ญ

ThaiRTGSMeaning
ใหญ่yaibig
ญาติyatrelative
ญี่ปุ่นyipunJapan
ผู้หญิงphuyingwoman
รำคาญramkhanannoyed

RTGS shows neither tone nor vowel length; type a word into the font tester to see it in every font.

ญ in every font

The letter in each of the 61 families you can download here, in its regular style. Looped faces start the stroke from a small circle; loopless ones leave it out. Each card opens the family’s page.