U+A75C "Ꝝ" Latin Capital Letter Rum Rotunda Unicode Character
U+A75C "Ꝝ" Latin Capital Letter Rum Rotunda is a specialized typographic form of the letter R, historically used in medieval Latin and Old Norse manuscripts as a distinct variant often associated with the "r rotunda" glyph shape. This character was employed primarily in scribal abbreviations and orthographic conventions, particularly to represent a short, open, or consonantal r sound in contexts where the standard capital R was not preferred, such as in the word "rūm" (meaning "space" or "room") or in certain decorative or ligature settings. It belongs to the Latin Extended-D block and serves as a valuable resource for paleographers, linguists, and digital typographers seeking to accurately reproduce medieval scripts and textual traditions.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A75C |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Latin Capital Letter Rum Rotunda |
| Block | Latin Extended-D |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ꝝ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ꝝ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x9D 0x9C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA75C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A75C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua75c |
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 | "ꝝ" U+A75D Latin Small Letter Rum Rotunda |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ꝝ" U+A75D Latin Small Letter Rum Rotunda |
| Simple Case Folding | "ꝝ" U+A75D Latin Small Letter Rum Rotunda |
| Case Folding | "ꝝ" U+A75D Latin Small Letter Rum Rotunda |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ꝝ" U+A75D Latin Small Letter Rum Rotunda |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ꝝ" U+A75D Latin Small Letter Rum Rotunda |
| 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 |