U+A724 "Ꜥ" Latin Capital Letter Egyptological Ain Unicode Character
U+A724 "Ꜥ" Latin Capital Letter Egyptological Ain is a typographic symbol used primarily in Egyptological transcription to represent the voiced pharyngeal fricative sound, a phoneme found in ancient Egyptian and various Afroasiatic languages. It is visually distinct from the common Latin "A" as it features a small hook or tail on the upper left stroke, resembling a reversed or modified uppercase letter. This character is essential for accurately rendering Egyptian words and names in academic works, distinguishing the "ain" from other glottal or pharyngeal sounds that are often transcribed with the modifier letter saltillo or apostrophe. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures consistent digital representation across scholarly texts and databases, supporting linguistic study and historical research.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A724 |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Latin Capital Letter Egyptological Ain |
| Block | Latin Extended-D |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ꜥ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ꜥ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x9C 0xA4 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA724 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A724 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua724 |
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 | "ꜥ" U+A725 Latin Small Letter Egyptological Ain |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ꜥ" U+A725 Latin Small Letter Egyptological Ain |
| Simple Case Folding | "ꜥ" U+A725 Latin Small Letter Egyptological Ain |
| Case Folding | "ꜥ" U+A725 Latin Small Letter Egyptological Ain |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ꜥ" U+A725 Latin Small Letter Egyptological Ain |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ꜥ" U+A725 Latin Small Letter Egyptological Ain |
| 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 |