U+A779 "Ꝺ" Latin Capital Letter Insular D Unicode Character

U+A779 "Ꝺ" Latin Capital Letter Insular D is a typographic variant of the Latin letter D, historically used in medieval manuscripts of the Insular script tradition, particularly in Irish and Old English writing. It features a distinctive rounded, uncial-like shape that differs from the standard Carolingian or modern Roman D. This character was employed to represent the same phonetic sound as the regular letter D, but its use later declined as scribal conventions shifted. It is now primarily of interest to paleographers, linguists, and digital typographers working with historical texts or fonts aiming to replicate early medieval orthography.

General Properties

Code Point	U+A779
Version Added	5.1
Name	Latin Capital Letter Insular D
Block	Latin Extended-D
General Category	Uppercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	Ꝺ
HTML Hex Encoding	Ꝺ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEA 0x9D 0xB9
UTF-16 Encoding	0xA779
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000A779
C/C++/Java Escape	\ua779

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	"ꝺ" U+A77A Latin Small Letter Insular D
Lowercase Code Point	"ꝺ" U+A77A Latin Small Letter Insular D
Simple Case Folding	"ꝺ" U+A77A Latin Small Letter Insular D
Case Folding	"ꝺ" U+A77A Latin Small Letter Insular D
Cased	Yes
Changes When Casefolded	Yes
Changes When Casemapped	Yes
Changes When Lowercased	Yes
Changes When NFKC Casefolded	Yes
NFKC Casefold	"ꝺ" U+A77A Latin Small Letter Insular D
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ꝺ" U+A77A Latin Small Letter Insular D
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