U+A76E "Ꝯ" Latin Capital Letter Con Unicode Character

U+A76E "Ꝯ" Latin Capital Letter Con is a specialized typographic symbol used primarily in medieval and early modern Latin manuscripts as an abbreviation for the Latin conjunction "con," similar to a scribal contraction or shorthand. This character, part of the Latin Extended-D block, represents a capital letter form of the abbreviation, often appearing in historical texts alongside its lowercase counterpart (U+A76F) and the related abbreviation for "com" (U+A770). Its inclusion in Unicode allows for the faithful digital representation of these historical documents, preserving the scribal practices of abbreviating common Latin prefixes and conjunctions in textual scholarship and paleography.

General Properties

Code Point	U+A76E
Version Added	5.1
Name	Latin Capital Letter Con
Block	Latin Extended-D
General Category	Uppercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	Ꝯ
HTML Hex Encoding	Ꝯ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEA 0x9D 0xAE
UTF-16 Encoding	0xA76E
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000A76E
C/C++/Java Escape	\ua76e

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	"ꝯ" U+A76F Latin Small Letter Con
Lowercase Code Point	"ꝯ" U+A76F Latin Small Letter Con
Simple Case Folding	"ꝯ" U+A76F Latin Small Letter Con
Case Folding	"ꝯ" U+A76F Latin Small Letter Con
Cased	Yes
Changes When Casefolded	Yes
Changes When Casemapped	Yes
Changes When Lowercased	Yes
Changes When NFKC Casefolded	Yes
NFKC Casefold	"ꝯ" U+A76F Latin Small Letter Con
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ꝯ" U+A76F Latin Small Letter Con
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