U+A725 "ꜥ" Latin Small Letter Egyptological Ain Unicode Character

U+A725 "ꜥ" Latin Small Letter Egyptological Ain is a specialized glyph used primarily in the academic transcription of ancient Egyptian texts, where it represents a voiced pharyngeal fricative sound, akin to the Arabic letter 'ayn, that was present in the Egyptian language. This character helps scholars accurately transliterate hieroglyphs into Latin script for linguistic analysis and publication, distinguishing it from the similar but separate Unicode character for the Latin letter "a" with a combining diacritic. Its inclusion in the Unicode standard ensures consistent digital representation across different computer systems and fonts, facilitating precise communication in Egyptological research, philology, and related historical studies.

General Properties

Code Point	U+A725
Version Added	5.1
Name	Latin Small Letter Egyptological Ain
Block	Latin Extended-D
General Category	Lowercase 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 0xA5
UTF-16 Encoding	0xA725
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000A725
C/C++/Java Escape	\ua725

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
Lowercase	Yes
Simple Uppercase Code Point	"Ꜥ" U+A724 Latin Capital Letter Egyptological Ain
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"Ꜥ" U+A724 Latin Capital Letter Egyptological Ain
Uppercase Code Point	"Ꜥ" U+A724 Latin Capital Letter Egyptological Ain
Titlecase Code Point	"Ꜥ" U+A724 Latin Capital Letter Egyptological Ain
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