U+A771 "ꝱ" Latin Small Letter Dum Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꝱ
U+A771 "ꝱ" Latin Small Letter Dum is a medieval scribal abbreviation historically used in Latin manuscripts to represent the word "dum" or sometimes specific numerical values, functioning as a shorthand for the Latin conjunction "dum" meaning "while" or "until." This character belongs to the Latin Extended-D block and is considered a scholarly abbreviation, designed for use in philological texts to accurately transcribe and preserve the writing practices of medieval scribes.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A771 |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Latin Small Letter Dum |
| Block | Latin Extended-D |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꝱ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꝱ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x9D 0xB1 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA771 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A771 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua771 |