U+A737 "ꜷ" Latin Small Letter Au Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꜷ
U+A737 "ꜷ" Latin Small Letter Au is a historical typographic ligature used in medieval and early modern Latin manuscripts and printed texts, where it represents the Latin diphthong "au" combined into a single glyph. This character is part of the Latin Extended-D block, designed to support phonetic and scholarly transcriptions of older writing systems, and it is rarely used in modern standard orthography but remains important for accurate digital representation of historical documents, such as those in Old English, Old Norse, or medieval Latin contexts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A737 |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Latin Small Letter Au |
| Block | Latin Extended-D |
| General Category | Lowercase 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 0xB7 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA737 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A737 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua737 |
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 | "Ꜷ" U+A736 Latin Capital Letter Au |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "Ꜷ" U+A736 Latin Capital Letter Au |
| Uppercase Code Point | "Ꜷ" U+A736 Latin Capital Letter Au |
| Titlecase Code Point | "Ꜷ" U+A736 Latin Capital Letter Au |
| 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 |