U+A732 "Ꜳ" Latin Capital Letter Aa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
Ꜳ
U+A732 "Ꜳ" Latin Capital Letter Aa is a single typographic ligature that combines the letters A and A into one character, representing a historical or specialized digraph used primarily in medieval Latin and Old English orthography, as well as in certain phonetic transcription systems. It appears as a capital form where two As are connected, often employed to denote a long vowel sound that could be pronounced similarly to the modern English "aw" in words like "law" or as a distinct vowel in some early written texts. This character is part of the Latin Extended-D block and is rarely used in contemporary writing, but it serves an important role in philological studies and the accurate reproduction of ancient manuscripts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A732 |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Latin Capital Letter Aa |
| Block | Latin Extended-D |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ꜳ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ꜳ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x9C 0xB2 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA732 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A732 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua732 |
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 | "ꜳ" U+A733 Latin Small Letter Aa |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ꜳ" U+A733 Latin Small Letter Aa |
| Simple Case Folding | "ꜳ" U+A733 Latin Small Letter Aa |
| Case Folding | "ꜳ" U+A733 Latin Small Letter Aa |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ꜳ" U+A733 Latin Small Letter Aa |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ꜳ" U+A733 Latin Small Letter Aa |
| 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 |