U+A730 "ꜰ" Latin Letter Small Capital F Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꜰ
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 |