U+A773 "ꝳ" Latin Small Letter Mum Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꝳ
U+A773 "ꝳ" Latin Small Letter Mum is a historical typographic abbreviation from medieval Latin and Old English scribal practices, representing a contraction for the word "mum" or similar phonetic sequences like "um" or "mun," often used in manuscript shorthand to save space. It is part of the Latin Extended-D block and is classified as a medial or final scribal abbreviation, typically appearing in texts from the early to high Middle Ages. This character allows modern digital encoding to accurately replicate medieval manuscripts, preserving the unique ligature or stylized form that scribes employed, though it is rarely used in contemporary writing outside palaeographic or philological contexts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A773 |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Latin Small Letter Mum |
| Block | Latin Extended-D |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꝳ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꝳ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x9D 0xB3 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA773 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A773 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua773 |