U+A763 "ꝣ" Latin Small Letter Visigothic Z Unicode Character

U+A763 "ꝣ" Latin Small Letter Visigothic Z is a historical typographic glyph used in medieval Visigothic script, a distinctive writing system employed in the Iberian Peninsula from approximately the 7th to the 12th centuries. This letter represents a variant form of the Latin letter Z, often characterized by a descender that extends below the baseline, and it was typically used to denote the voiced sibilant sound /z/ in early Romance languages and Latin texts. Its inclusion in the Unicode Standard helps preserve and digitally represent medieval manuscripts, allowing scholars and enthusiasts to accurately transcribe and study documents from this period without having to resort to modern substitutes.

General Properties

Code Point	U+A763
Version Added	5.1
Name	Latin Small Letter Visigothic Z
Block	Latin Extended-D
General Category	Lowercase 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 0xA3
UTF-16 Encoding	0xA763
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000A763
C/C++/Java Escape	\ua763

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	"Ꝣ" U+A762 Latin Capital Letter Visigothic Z
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"Ꝣ" U+A762 Latin Capital Letter Visigothic Z
Uppercase Code Point	"Ꝣ" U+A762 Latin Capital Letter Visigothic Z
Titlecase Code Point	"Ꝣ" U+A762 Latin Capital Letter Visigothic Z
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