U+A76B "ꝫ" Latin Small Letter Et Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꝫ
U+A76B "ꝫ" Latin Small Letter Et is a historical typographic symbol used in medieval and early modern Latin manuscripts as a scribal abbreviation or ligature for the word "et," meaning "and." It resembles a lowercase 'e' combined with a 't' in a flowing script, often appearing in contractions or shorthand within old texts. This character is part of the Latin Extended-D block, supporting preservation and digital representation of archaic writing systems for scholarly and paleographic purposes.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A76B |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Latin Small Letter Et |
| Block | Latin Extended-D |
| General Category | Lowercase 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 0xAB |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA76B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A76B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua76b |
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 | "Ꝫ" U+A76A Latin Capital Letter Et |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "Ꝫ" U+A76A Latin Capital Letter Et |
| Uppercase Code Point | "Ꝫ" U+A76A Latin Capital Letter Et |
| Titlecase Code Point | "Ꝫ" U+A76A Latin Capital Letter Et |
| 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 |