U+A74A "Ꝋ" Latin Capital Letter O with Long Stroke Overlay Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
Ꝋ
U+A74A "Ꝋ" Latin Capital Letter O with Long Stroke Overlay is a specialized typographic glyph used primarily in medieval and early modern manuscripts, particularly in Old English and Old Norse contexts, where it denotes a scribal abbreviation or a distinct phonetic value. The long stroke overlay, which cuts through the standard uppercase O, often represents a contraction for words like "on" or "one" or marks a vowel with a specific length or quality, though its exact usage varies by script. This character is part of the Latin Extended-D block, included in Unicode to support historical orthography and philological transcription, making it valuable for scholars studying ancient texts rather than for contemporary use.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A74A |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Latin Capital Letter O with Long Stroke Overlay |
| Block | Latin Extended-D |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ꝋ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ꝋ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x9D 0x8A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA74A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A74A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua74a |