U+A735 "ꜵ" Latin Small Letter Ao Unicode Character

U+A735 "ꜵ" Latin Small Letter Ao is a typographic ligature blending the letters A and O into a single glyph, historically used in medieval and early modern Latin scripts for representing the diphthong or digraph "ao" in certain orthographic traditions. It belongs to the Latin Extended-D block and is primarily intended for scholarly transcription of archaic manuscripts, particularly in Germanic philology and Old Norse studies, where it denotes a specific vowel sound distinct from separate A and O letters. This character is classified as a lowercase letter and has a corresponding uppercase form, U+A734 "Ꜵ" Latin Capital Letter Ao, ensuring proper casing in specialized texts.

General Properties

Code Point	U+A735
Version Added	5.1
Name	Latin Small Letter Ao
Block	Latin Extended-D
General Category	Lowercase 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 0xB5
UTF-16 Encoding	0xA735
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000A735
C/C++/Java Escape	\ua735

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	"Ꜵ" U+A734 Latin Capital Letter Ao
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"Ꜵ" U+A734 Latin Capital Letter Ao
Uppercase Code Point	"Ꜵ" U+A734 Latin Capital Letter Ao
Titlecase Code Point	"Ꜵ" U+A734 Latin Capital Letter Ao
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