U+A76F "ꝯ" Latin Small Letter Con Unicode Character

U+A76F "ꝯ" Latin Small Letter Con is a historical typographic abbreviation used in medieval Latin manuscripts, where it represents the Latin word "con" or "cum" as a shorthand symbol. It belongs to the Latin Extended-D block and is part of a set of scribal abbreviations that helped scribes save space and time when writing by hand. This character is a small, stylized letter typically resembling a lowercase "c" with a horizontal stroke or a distinctive loop, and it is still of interest to paleographers, linguists, and digital typographers working with historical texts. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures that such medieval notations can be accurately encoded and displayed in modern digital environments.

General Properties

Code Point	U+A76F
Version Added	5.1
Name	Latin Small Letter Con
Block	Latin Extended-D
General Category	Lowercase 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 0xAF
UTF-16 Encoding	0xA76F
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000A76F
C/C++/Java Escape	\ua76f

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	"Ꝯ" U+A76E Latin Capital Letter Con
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"Ꝯ" U+A76E Latin Capital Letter Con
Uppercase Code Point	"Ꝯ" U+A76E Latin Capital Letter Con
Titlecase Code Point	"Ꝯ" U+A76E Latin Capital Letter Con
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