U+A72A "Ꜫ" Latin Capital Letter Tresillo Unicode Character
U+A72A "Ꜫ" Latin Capital Letter Tresillo is a typographic symbol used primarily in historical and linguistic contexts to represent a specific sound or click in certain African languages, particularly those of the Khoisan family, such as !Xóõ. It resembles the numeral 3 with a tail or curl and was part of the Extended Latin alphabet created by early European missionaries and linguists for phonetic transcription. The character is often paired with its lowercase form, U+A72B, and is distinct from the mathematical or punctuation uses of a numeral three, serving instead as a consonant indicator within specialized orthographies. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures that digital texts can accurately preserve the writing systems of endangered or lesser-documented languages.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A72A |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Latin Capital Letter Tresillo |
| Block | Latin Extended-D |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ꜫ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ꜫ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x9C 0xAA |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA72A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A72A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua72a |
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 | "ꜫ" U+A72B Latin Small Letter Tresillo |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ꜫ" U+A72B Latin Small Letter Tresillo |
| Simple Case Folding | "ꜫ" U+A72B Latin Small Letter Tresillo |
| Case Folding | "ꜫ" U+A72B Latin Small Letter Tresillo |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ꜫ" U+A72B Latin Small Letter Tresillo |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ꜫ" U+A72B Latin Small Letter Tresillo |
| 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 |