U+2C7E "Ȿ" Latin Capital Letter S with Swash Tail Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
Ȿ
U+2C7E "Ȿ" Latin Capital Letter S with Swash Tail is a typographic variant of the standard Latin capital letter S, distinguished by an ornamental, curved tail descending from its lower right stroke. This character is primarily used in historical or stylistic contexts, particularly in medieval manuscripts and early modern printing, where it served as a decorative or scribal form of the letter S. It belongs to the Latin Extended-C block of Unicode and is classified as a letter, making it suitable for text representation in specialized linguistic or paleographic work, though it is rarely encountered in modern everyday writing.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2C7E |
| Version Added | 5.2 |
| Name | Latin Capital Letter S with Swash Tail |
| Block | Latin Extended-C |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ȿ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ȿ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0xB1 0xBE |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2C7E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002C7E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2c7e |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Alphabetic |
| Uppercase | Yes |
| Simple Lowercase Code Point | "ȿ" U+023F Latin Small Letter S with Swash Tail |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ȿ" U+023F Latin Small Letter S with Swash Tail |
| Simple Case Folding | "ȿ" U+023F Latin Small Letter S with Swash Tail |
| Case Folding | "ȿ" U+023F Latin Small Letter S with Swash Tail |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ȿ" U+023F Latin Small Letter S with Swash Tail |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ȿ" U+023F Latin Small Letter S with Swash Tail |
| 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 | Upper |