U+A73C "Ꜽ" Latin Capital Letter Ay Unicode Character

U+A73C "Ꜽ" Latin Capital Letter Ay is a historical typographic symbol used in medieval and early modern Latin manuscripts, particularly as a scribal abbreviation for the Latin diphthong "ae" or "æ." It represents a distinct letterform derived from a ligature or shorthand style, and it is part of the Latin Extended-D block, which encodes characters from various European orthographies and paleographic traditions. This capital letter, along with its lowercase counterpart "ꜽ" (U+A73D), is primarily of interest to scholars of historical linguistics, manuscript studies, and typography who analyze medieval writing conventions.

General Properties

Code Point	U+A73C
Version Added	5.1
Name	Latin Capital Letter Ay
Block	Latin Extended-D
General Category	Uppercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	Ꜽ
HTML Hex Encoding	Ꜽ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEA 0x9C 0xBC
UTF-16 Encoding	0xA73C
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000A73C
C/C++/Java Escape	\ua73c

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	"ꜽ" U+A73D Latin Small Letter Ay
Lowercase Code Point	"ꜽ" U+A73D Latin Small Letter Ay
Simple Case Folding	"ꜽ" U+A73D Latin Small Letter Ay
Case Folding	"ꜽ" U+A73D Latin Small Letter Ay
Cased	Yes
Changes When Casefolded	Yes
Changes When Casemapped	Yes
Changes When Lowercased	Yes
Changes When NFKC Casefolded	Yes
NFKC Casefold	"ꜽ" U+A73D Latin Small Letter Ay
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ꜽ" U+A73D Latin Small Letter Ay
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