U+A73F "ꜿ" Latin Small Letter Reversed C with Dot Unicode Character

U+A73F "ꜿ" Latin Small Letter Reversed C with Dot is a specialized letter used primarily in medievalist and phonetic transcriptions, particularly for representing certain sounds in Old English or other historical languages. Its design consists of a reversed lowercase "c" with a single dot placed above it, functioning as a diacritic to modify pronunciation. This character belongs to the Latin Extended-D block, which includes various historical and orthographic symbols not commonly found in modern writing systems. While rare in contemporary usage, it appears in scholarly editions of ancient texts or linguistic studies where precise phonetic notation is required.

General Properties

Code Point	U+A73F
Version Added	5.1
Name	Latin Small Letter Reversed C with Dot
Block	Latin Extended-D
General Category	Lowercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ꜿ
HTML Hex Encoding	ꜿ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEA 0x9C 0xBF
UTF-16 Encoding	0xA73F
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000A73F
C/C++/Java Escape	\ua73f

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	"Ꜿ" U+A73E Latin Capital Letter Reversed C with Dot
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"Ꜿ" U+A73E Latin Capital Letter Reversed C with Dot
Uppercase Code Point	"Ꜿ" U+A73E Latin Capital Letter Reversed C with Dot
Titlecase Code Point	"Ꜿ" U+A73E Latin Capital Letter Reversed C with Dot
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