U+A730 "ꜰ" Latin Letter Small Capital F Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+A730 "ꜰ" Latin Letter Small Capital F is a typographic variant of the letter F, designed in the shape of a small capital letter, meaning it retains the height of a lowercase letter but the form of an uppercase F. It is part of the Latin Extended-D block and is used primarily in historical and phonetic transcription contexts, particularly in medievalist studies and some older orthographies where small capitals served as distinct graphemes. This character allows scholars and typographers to represent specific sounds or textual conventions without resorting to simple uppercase substitution, preserving the nuanced distinctions required in precise linguistic or philological documentation.

General Properties

Code Point U+A730
Version Added 5.1
Name Latin Letter Small Capital F
Block Latin Extended-D
General Category Lowercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ꜰ
HTML Hex Encoding ꜰ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEA 0x9C 0xB0
UTF-16 Encoding 0xA730
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000A730
C/C++/Java Escape \ua730

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
Cased 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