U+A762 "Ꝣ" Latin Capital Letter Visigothic Z Unicode Character

U+A762 "Ꝣ" Latin Capital Letter Visigothic Z is a specialized typographic glyph used in medieval manuscripts written in the Visigothic script, a distinctive writing system developed in the Iberian Peninsula between the 7th and 12th centuries. This character represents a unique form of the letter Z that was employed by Visigothic scribes, often to denote a specific phonetic value or as a stylistic variant in Latin texts. Its inclusion in Unicode allows scholars and digital typographers to accurately represent historical documents and linguistic studies, preserving the paleographic details of early medieval Iberian writing.

General Properties

Code Point	U+A762
Version Added	5.1
Name	Latin Capital Letter Visigothic Z
Block	Latin Extended-D
General Category	Uppercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	Ꝣ
HTML Hex Encoding	Ꝣ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEA 0x9D 0xA2
UTF-16 Encoding	0xA762
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000A762
C/C++/Java Escape	\ua762

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	"ꝣ" U+A763 Latin Small Letter Visigothic Z
Lowercase Code Point	"ꝣ" U+A763 Latin Small Letter Visigothic Z
Simple Case Folding	"ꝣ" U+A763 Latin Small Letter Visigothic Z
Case Folding	"ꝣ" U+A763 Latin Small Letter Visigothic Z
Cased	Yes
Changes When Casefolded	Yes
Changes When Casemapped	Yes
Changes When Lowercased	Yes
Changes When NFKC Casefolded	Yes
NFKC Casefold	"ꝣ" U+A763 Latin Small Letter Visigothic Z
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ꝣ" U+A763 Latin Small Letter Visigothic Z
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