U+01FD "ǽ" Latin Small Letter Ae with Acute Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+01FD "ǽ" Latin Small Letter Ae with Acute is a precomposed letter used in certain Latin-based orthographies, primarily in Old English texts and some modern Scandinavian languages, to represent the vowel sound of the "ae" digraph with a stressed or high-toned accent. It combines the lowercase ae ligature, a single character formed from the letters a and e, with an acute accent mark above it, which indicates emphasis or a specific pronunciation, such as in the Old English word "slǽpan" meaning to sleep. This character is part of the Latin Extended-B block in Unicode and is distinct from the separate sequences of "áe" or "aé" because it encodes the ligature and accent as a single unit, ensuring consistent rendering across digital systems.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+01FD |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Small Letter Ae with Acute |
| Block | Latin Extended-B |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "æ" U+00E6 Latin Small Letter Ae "́" U+0301 Combining Acute Accent |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ǽ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ǽ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xC7 0xBD |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x01FD |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000001FD |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u01fd |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Alphabetic |
| Lowercase | Yes |
| Simple Uppercase Code Point | "Ǽ" U+01FC Latin Capital Letter Ae with Acute |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "Ǽ" U+01FC Latin Capital Letter Ae with Acute |
| Uppercase Code Point | "Ǽ" U+01FC Latin Capital Letter Ae with Acute |
| Titlecase Code Point | "Ǽ" U+01FC Latin Capital Letter Ae with Acute |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Titlecased | Yes |
| Changes When Uppercased | Yes |
| Script | Latin |
| Script Extensions | Latin |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| ID Start | Yes |
| XID Start | Yes |
| ID Continue | Yes |
| XID Continue | Yes |
| Alphabetic | Yes |
| Vertical Orientation | Rotated |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Alphabetic letter |
| Sentence Break | Lower |