U+A72D "ꜭ" Latin Small Letter Cuatrillo Unicode Character

U+A72D "ꜭ" Latin Small Letter Cuatrillo is a historical letter used primarily in colonial-era orthographies for certain languages of Mesoamerica, notably as a shorthand symbol representing the sound /kʷ/ or a similar labialized velar stop. It derives its name from the Spanish word "cuatrillo" meaning "little four," likely referring to its visual resemblance to a numeral 4 or a similar four-stroke design. This character belongs to the Latin Extended-D block and was added to Unicode to support the accurate digital representation of early linguistic and missionary texts, preserving the unique transcriptional conventions of the time.

General Properties

Code Point	U+A72D
Version Added	5.1
Name	Latin Small Letter Cuatrillo
Block	Latin Extended-D
General Category	Lowercase 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 0xAD
UTF-16 Encoding	0xA72D
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000A72D
C/C++/Java Escape	\ua72d

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	"Ꜭ" U+A72C Latin Capital Letter Cuatrillo
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"Ꜭ" U+A72C Latin Capital Letter Cuatrillo
Uppercase Code Point	"Ꜭ" U+A72C Latin Capital Letter Cuatrillo
Titlecase Code Point	"Ꜭ" U+A72C Latin Capital Letter Cuatrillo
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