U+A75D "ꝝ" Latin Small Letter Rum Rotunda Unicode Character

U+A75D "ꝝ" Latin Small Letter Rum Rotunda is a medieval typographic variant of the lowercase letter "r," historically used in Insular scripts of early Irish and Anglo-Saxon manuscripts. Its distinctive rounded, bucket-like shape, often contrasting with the more common straight-backed "r," helped scribes save space and maintain visual rhythm in dense text layouts. This character belongs to the Latin Extended-D block and is primarily employed in scholarly contexts for the accurate transcription and digital preservation of medieval documents, particularly those from Old and Middle English or Old Norse traditions.

General Properties

Code Point	U+A75D
Version Added	5.1
Name	Latin Small Letter Rum Rotunda
Block	Latin Extended-D
General Category	Lowercase 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 0x9D
UTF-16 Encoding	0xA75D
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000A75D
C/C++/Java Escape	\ua75d

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	"Ꝝ" U+A75C Latin Capital Letter Rum Rotunda
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"Ꝝ" U+A75C Latin Capital Letter Rum Rotunda
Uppercase Code Point	"Ꝝ" U+A75C Latin Capital Letter Rum Rotunda
Titlecase Code Point	"Ꝝ" U+A75C Latin Capital Letter Rum Rotunda
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