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'ん', in hiragana, or 'ン' in katakana, is one of the Japanese kana, which each represent one mora. It is the only kana sound ending with a consonant.
This kana is unique in several aspects; it can never begin a standard Japanese word (but it can however begin a foreign loan word; for example, "Ngorongoro" is transcribed as "ンゴロンゴロ"). In some dialects of Japanese, ん may begin a contraction of a phrase, but such uses are generally for informal conversation only.
The kana is followed by an apostrophe in some systems of transliteration whenever it precedes a vowel or a y- kana, so as to prevent confusion with other kana. But like every other kana, it represents an entire mora - and so its pronunciation is, in practice, as close to 'nn' as 'n'. The pronunciation can also change depending on what sounds surround it. These are a few of the ways it can change:

★ (before , or )

★ (before or )

★ (before , , or )

★ (between and or before )

★ (between and )

★ (at the end of an utterance)

Form	Rōmaji	Hiragana	Katakana
Normal ''n'' (ん)	''n''	ん	ン
	''nn'' ''nh''	んん んー	ンン ンー

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★ Darling no atamannaka, , Saori, Oguri, Media Factory, 2005, ISBN 4-8401-1226-6