U+A729 "ꜩ" Latin Small Letter Tz Unicode Character

U+A729 "ꜩ" Latin Small Letter Tz is a specialized typographic ligature representing the consonant cluster "tz" and is used primarily in historical or medieval Latin texts, as well as in certain Germanic philological contexts, to denote a specific sound or scribal abbreviation. It belongs to the Latin Extended-D block, which encompasses characters for medievalist and phonetic notations, and visually resembles a single composite glyph rather than two separate letters. This character is distinct from other similar-looking symbols and is employed by scholars when transcribing or digitizing old manuscripts to preserve orthographic fidelity.

General Properties

Code Point	U+A729
Version Added	5.1
Name	Latin Small Letter Tz
Block	Latin Extended-D
General Category	Lowercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ꜩ
HTML Hex Encoding	ꜩ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEA 0x9C 0xA9
UTF-16 Encoding	0xA729
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000A729
C/C++/Java Escape	\ua729

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	"Ꜩ" U+A728 Latin Capital Letter Tz
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"Ꜩ" U+A728 Latin Capital Letter Tz
Uppercase Code Point	"Ꜩ" U+A728 Latin Capital Letter Tz
Titlecase Code Point	"Ꜩ" U+A728 Latin Capital Letter Tz
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