U+A736 "Ꜷ" Latin Capital Letter Au Unicode Character

U+A736 "Ꜷ" Latin Capital Letter Au is a historical typographic ligature that merges the letters A and U into a single glyph, used primarily in medieval and early modern Latin texts as a scribal abbreviation or orthographic variant for the diphthong "au" to save space or denote a specific pronunciation. This character belongs to the Latin Extended-D block, which was added in Unicode version 5.1 to support a range of medievalist and liturgical notations, and it is rarely encountered in modern typography outside specialized academic editions or palaeographic studies. Its lowercase counterpart is U+A737 "ꜷ", and together they help preserve the visual fidelity of historical manuscripts in digital representations.

General Properties

Code Point	U+A736
Version Added	5.1
Name	Latin Capital Letter Au
Block	Latin Extended-D
General Category	Uppercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	Ꜷ
HTML Hex Encoding	Ꜷ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEA 0x9C 0xB6
UTF-16 Encoding	0xA736
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000A736
C/C++/Java Escape	\ua736

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	"ꜷ" U+A737 Latin Small Letter Au
Lowercase Code Point	"ꜷ" U+A737 Latin Small Letter Au
Simple Case Folding	"ꜷ" U+A737 Latin Small Letter Au
Case Folding	"ꜷ" U+A737 Latin Small Letter Au
Cased	Yes
Changes When Casefolded	Yes
Changes When Casemapped	Yes
Changes When Lowercased	Yes
Changes When NFKC Casefolded	Yes
NFKC Casefold	"ꜷ" U+A737 Latin Small Letter Au
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ꜷ" U+A737 Latin Small Letter Au
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