U+A776 "ꝶ" Latin Letter Small Capital Rum Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꝶ
U+A776 "ꝶ" Latin Letter Small Capital Rum is a typographic variant used in medieval and early modern Latin manuscripts to represent the word "rum" as an abbreviation or a scribal shorthand, often employed to save space or reflect specific orthographic conventions. It appears as a small capital form of the letter R with a distinctive shape, and its inclusion in Unicode aids in the accurate digital rendering and preservation of historical texts from that period, particularly those written in insular scripts or influenced by Irish and Anglo-Saxon scribal traditions.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A776 |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Latin Letter Small Capital Rum |
| Block | Latin Extended-D |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꝶ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꝶ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x9D 0xB6 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA776 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A776 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua776 |