U+A73A "Ꜻ" Latin Capital Letter Av with Horizontal Bar Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
Ꜻ
U+A73A "Ꜻ" Latin Capital Letter Av with Horizontal Bar is a specialized letter used primarily in medievalist and phonetic transcriptions of Old Norse and other early Germanic languages, where it represents a distinct vowel sound, often a long or open variant of the letter "av." This character belongs to the Latin Extended-D block and is formed by adding a horizontal bar across the top of a capital "A" and "V" ligature, serving as a typographic tool for historical and linguistic accuracy in scholarly texts. Its usage is limited but crucial for preserving the precise orthography of ancient manuscripts and reconstructed pronunciations.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A73A |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Latin Capital Letter Av with Horizontal Bar |
| Block | Latin Extended-D |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ꜻ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ꜻ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x9C 0xBA |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA73A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A73A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua73a |
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 | "ꜻ" U+A73B Latin Small Letter Av with Horizontal Bar |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ꜻ" U+A73B Latin Small Letter Av with Horizontal Bar |
| Simple Case Folding | "ꜻ" U+A73B Latin Small Letter Av with Horizontal Bar |
| Case Folding | "ꜻ" U+A73B Latin Small Letter Av with Horizontal Bar |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ꜻ" U+A73B Latin Small Letter Av with Horizontal Bar |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ꜻ" U+A73B Latin Small Letter Av with Horizontal Bar |
| 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 |