U+A727 "ꜧ" Latin Small Letter Heng Unicode Character

U+A727 "ꜧ" Latin Small Letter Heng is a historical and phonetic letter used primarily in medieval Latin and Old English manuscripts, as well as in some modern phonetic transcription systems. Its shape resembles a combination of an "h" and a "g" or a modified "h" with a closed loop, and it represents a velar or glottal fricative sound, depending on the context. This character is part of the Latin Extended D block of Unicode and is distinct from similar-looking letters like the lowercase ezh or yogh, serving a specialized role in linguistic research and the digital representation of ancient texts.

General Properties

Code Point	U+A727
Version Added	5.1
Name	Latin Small Letter Heng
Block	Latin Extended-D
General Category	Lowercase 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 0xA7
UTF-16 Encoding	0xA727
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000A727
C/C++/Java Escape	\ua727

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	"Ꜧ" U+A726 Latin Capital Letter Heng
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"Ꜧ" U+A726 Latin Capital Letter Heng
Uppercase Code Point	"Ꜧ" U+A726 Latin Capital Letter Heng
Titlecase Code Point	"Ꜧ" U+A726 Latin Capital Letter Heng
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