U+A76A "Ꝫ" Latin Capital Letter Et Unicode Character

U+A76A "Ꝫ" Latin Capital Letter Et is a typographic abbreviation historically used in medieval and early modern Latin and English manuscripts to represent the word "et," meaning "and." This character belongs to the Latin Extended-D block and is a capital form of the lowercase et ligature, often visually resembling a stylized ampersand or a crossed T shape. Its use is primarily scholarly, appearing in text that preserves or reproduces old manuscripts, such as in critical editions of historical documents.

General Properties

Code Point	U+A76A
Version Added	5.1
Name	Latin Capital Letter Et
Block	Latin Extended-D
General Category	Uppercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	Ꝫ
HTML Hex Encoding	Ꝫ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEA 0x9D 0xAA
UTF-16 Encoding	0xA76A
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000A76A
C/C++/Java Escape	\ua76a

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	"ꝫ" U+A76B Latin Small Letter Et
Lowercase Code Point	"ꝫ" U+A76B Latin Small Letter Et
Simple Case Folding	"ꝫ" U+A76B Latin Small Letter Et
Case Folding	"ꝫ" U+A76B Latin Small Letter Et
Cased	Yes
Changes When Casefolded	Yes
Changes When Casemapped	Yes
Changes When Lowercased	Yes
Changes When NFKC Casefolded	Yes
NFKC Casefold	"ꝫ" U+A76B Latin Small Letter Et
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ꝫ" U+A76B Latin Small Letter Et
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