U+A733 "ꜳ" Latin Small Letter Aa Unicode Character

U+A733 "ꜳ" Latin Small Letter Aa is a historic ligature representing the digraph "aa," used primarily in medieval and early modern Latin, Old English, and some Nordic languages as a single typographic unit rather than two separate letters. Its capital counterpart is U+A732 "Ꜳ" Latin Capital Letter Aa. This character is part of the Latin Extended-D block and is distinct from the modern "å" or two separate "a" characters, serving as a valuable symbol for scholars in paleography, historical linguistics, and typography when accurately representing original manuscript texts.

General Properties

Code Point	U+A733
Version Added	5.1
Name	Latin Small Letter Aa
Block	Latin Extended-D
General Category	Lowercase 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 0xB3
UTF-16 Encoding	0xA733
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000A733
C/C++/Java Escape	\ua733

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	"Ꜳ" U+A732 Latin Capital Letter Aa
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"Ꜳ" U+A732 Latin Capital Letter Aa
Uppercase Code Point	"Ꜳ" U+A732 Latin Capital Letter Aa
Titlecase Code Point	"Ꜳ" U+A732 Latin Capital Letter Aa
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