U+A726 "Ꜧ" Latin Capital Letter Heng Unicode Character

U+A726 "Ꜧ" Latin Capital Letter Heng is an extended Latin letter primarily used in historical and phonetic transcriptions of certain African languages, most notably in the writing systems for languages like the Bantu language Kikongo, where it represents a voiced velar fricative sound (similar to the "g" in Spanish "lago"). It visually resembles a capital H with a horizontal bar extending from the middle of the left vertical stroke, distinguishing it from the standard letter H. While not part of common modern alphabets, it appears in specialized linguistic texts and some early missionary orthographies, serving as a distinct grapheme to denote a specific phoneme absent in standard Latin script.

General Properties

Code Point	U+A726
Version Added	5.1
Name	Latin Capital Letter Heng
Block	Latin Extended-D
General Category	Uppercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	Ꜧ
HTML Hex Encoding	Ꜧ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEA 0x9C 0xA6
UTF-16 Encoding	0xA726
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000A726
C/C++/Java Escape	\ua726

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	"ꜧ" U+A727 Latin Small Letter Heng
Lowercase Code Point	"ꜧ" U+A727 Latin Small Letter Heng
Simple Case Folding	"ꜧ" U+A727 Latin Small Letter Heng
Case Folding	"ꜧ" U+A727 Latin Small Letter Heng
Cased	Yes
Changes When Casefolded	Yes
Changes When Casemapped	Yes
Changes When Lowercased	Yes
Changes When NFKC Casefolded	Yes
NFKC Casefold	"ꜧ" U+A727 Latin Small Letter Heng
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ꜧ" U+A727 Latin Small Letter Heng
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