U+A734 "Ꜵ" Latin Capital Letter Ao Unicode Character

U+A734 "Ꜵ" Latin Capital Letter Ao is a typographic ligature representing the double vowel combination of A and O, used historically in certain medieval and early modern manuscripts as a single letter within the Latin alphabet. It belongs to the Latin Extended-D block, which includes characters for medievalist and phonetic transcription purposes. This character, along with its lowercase counterpart U+A735, is particularly associated with the writing of Old Norse and other early Germanic languages, where it simplified the spelling of diphthongs or long vowels in scholarly editions and philological texts.

General Properties

Code Point	U+A734
Version Added	5.1
Name	Latin Capital Letter Ao
Block	Latin Extended-D
General Category	Uppercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	Ꜵ
HTML Hex Encoding	Ꜵ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEA 0x9C 0xB4
UTF-16 Encoding	0xA734
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000A734
C/C++/Java Escape	\ua734

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	"ꜵ" U+A735 Latin Small Letter Ao
Lowercase Code Point	"ꜵ" U+A735 Latin Small Letter Ao
Simple Case Folding	"ꜵ" U+A735 Latin Small Letter Ao
Case Folding	"ꜵ" U+A735 Latin Small Letter Ao
Cased	Yes
Changes When Casefolded	Yes
Changes When Casemapped	Yes
Changes When Lowercased	Yes
Changes When NFKC Casefolded	Yes
NFKC Casefold	"ꜵ" U+A735 Latin Small Letter Ao
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ꜵ" U+A735 Latin Small Letter Ao
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