U+A72C "Ꜭ" Latin Capital Letter Cuatrillo Unicode Character

U+A72C "Ꜭ" Latin Capital Letter Cuatrillo is a specialized letter used in historical Latin orthographies for certain Mayan languages, particularly for writing the Kʼicheʼ language. It represents a specific uvular or glottalized consonant sound in these early transcription systems, and its shape resembles a small "4" or a modified "c" with a bottom loop. This character is part of a set of medievalist and Latin extended letters that were employed in colonial-era texts to precisely denote phonetic distinctions not found in standard Latin, and it has a lowercase counterpart at U+A72D.

General Properties

Code Point	U+A72C
Version Added	5.1
Name	Latin Capital Letter Cuatrillo
Block	Latin Extended-D
General Category	Uppercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	Ꜭ
HTML Hex Encoding	Ꜭ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEA 0x9C 0xAC
UTF-16 Encoding	0xA72C
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000A72C
C/C++/Java Escape	\ua72c

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	"ꜭ" U+A72D Latin Small Letter Cuatrillo
Lowercase Code Point	"ꜭ" U+A72D Latin Small Letter Cuatrillo
Simple Case Folding	"ꜭ" U+A72D Latin Small Letter Cuatrillo
Case Folding	"ꜭ" U+A72D Latin Small Letter Cuatrillo
Cased	Yes
Changes When Casefolded	Yes
Changes When Casemapped	Yes
Changes When Lowercased	Yes
Changes When NFKC Casefolded	Yes
NFKC Casefold	"ꜭ" U+A72D Latin Small Letter Cuatrillo
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ꜭ" U+A72D Latin Small Letter Cuatrillo
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