U+A77C "ꝼ" Latin Small Letter Insular F Unicode Character

U+A77C "ꝼ" Latin Small Letter Insular F is a typographic variant of the letter F that originated in medieval insular scripts used in Ireland and Anglo-Saxon England, where it was often written with a distinctive open shape resembling a modern lowercase F but with the top stroke crossing only to the left. This character was historically employed to represent the same phonetic value as a standard Latin F, but its separate encoding in Unicode preserves it for historical and scholarly reproduction of early medieval manuscripts, as well as for use in certain modern linguistic transcriptions and decorative fonts.

General Properties

Code Point	U+A77C
Version Added	5.1
Name	Latin Small Letter Insular F
Block	Latin Extended-D
General Category	Lowercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ꝼ
HTML Hex Encoding	ꝼ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEA 0x9D 0xBC
UTF-16 Encoding	0xA77C
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000A77C
C/C++/Java Escape	\ua77c

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	"Ꝼ" U+A77B Latin Capital Letter Insular F
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"Ꝼ" U+A77B Latin Capital Letter Insular F
Uppercase Code Point	"Ꝼ" U+A77B Latin Capital Letter Insular F
Titlecase Code Point	"Ꝼ" U+A77B Latin Capital Letter Insular F
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