U+A74E "Ꝏ" Latin Capital Letter Oo Unicode Character

U+A74E "Ꝏ" Latin Capital Letter Oo is a historical typographic ligature representing a doubled or long "O" sound, primarily used in medieval and early modern manuscripts for abbreviations or phonetic distinctions. It appears in Latin and Old Norse texts, as well as in some early English and Irish Gaelic writings, where it often replaced a sequence of two O letters or denoted a specific vowel length. This character is part of the Latin Extended-D block and is classified as a Latin capital letter, with its lowercase counterpart being U+A74F "ꝏ" (Latin Small Letter Oo).

General Properties

Code Point	U+A74E
Version Added	5.1
Name	Latin Capital Letter Oo
Block	Latin Extended-D
General Category	Uppercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	Ꝏ
HTML Hex Encoding	Ꝏ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEA 0x9D 0x8E
UTF-16 Encoding	0xA74E
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000A74E
C/C++/Java Escape	\ua74e

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	"ꝏ" U+A74F Latin Small Letter Oo
Lowercase Code Point	"ꝏ" U+A74F Latin Small Letter Oo
Simple Case Folding	"ꝏ" U+A74F Latin Small Letter Oo
Case Folding	"ꝏ" U+A74F Latin Small Letter Oo
Cased	Yes
Changes When Casefolded	Yes
Changes When Casemapped	Yes
Changes When Lowercased	Yes
Changes When NFKC Casefolded	Yes
NFKC Casefold	"ꝏ" U+A74F Latin Small Letter Oo
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ꝏ" U+A74F Latin Small Letter Oo
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