U+A73D "ꜽ" Latin Small Letter Ay Unicode Character

U+A73D "ꜽ" Latin Small Letter Ay is a typographic glyph used primarily in historical or phonetic contexts, representing a ligature or scribal abbreviation for the Latin digraph "ay." It belongs to the Latin Extended-D block and was encoded as part of a set of medievalist characters, often employed in transcriptions of Old English or Middle English manuscripts where scribes combined letters for space or stylistic efficiency. This character is typically paired with its uppercase counterpart, U+A73C "Ꜽ" Latin Capital Letter Ay, and it holds relevance for scholars studying paleography, philology, or the evolution of the Latin script in early written works.

General Properties

Code Point	U+A73D
Version Added	5.1
Name	Latin Small Letter Ay
Block	Latin Extended-D
General Category	Lowercase 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 0xBD
UTF-16 Encoding	0xA73D
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000A73D
C/C++/Java Escape	\ua73d

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	"Ꜽ" U+A73C Latin Capital Letter Ay
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"Ꜽ" U+A73C Latin Capital Letter Ay
Uppercase Code Point	"Ꜽ" U+A73C Latin Capital Letter Ay
Titlecase Code Point	"Ꜽ" U+A73C Latin Capital Letter Ay
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