U+A782 "Ꞃ" Latin Capital Letter Insular R Unicode Character

U+A782 "Ꞃ" Latin Capital Letter Insular R is a historical typographic form of the letter R used primarily in medieval Insular scripts, such as those found in Old English and Old Irish manuscripts, where it often represented a voiced or trilled r sound. This capital letter is distinct from the standard Latin R due to its distinctive shape, which lacks a fully closed loop and instead features a descending stroke. It was included in Unicode to support the accurate digital representation and study of historical texts, particularly those from early medieval Britain and Ireland.

General Properties

Code Point	U+A782
Version Added	5.1
Name	Latin Capital Letter Insular R
Block	Latin Extended-D
General Category	Uppercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	Ꞃ
HTML Hex Encoding	Ꞃ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEA 0x9E 0x82
UTF-16 Encoding	0xA782
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000A782
C/C++/Java Escape	\ua782

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	"ꞃ" U+A783 Latin Small Letter Insular R
Lowercase Code Point	"ꞃ" U+A783 Latin Small Letter Insular R
Simple Case Folding	"ꞃ" U+A783 Latin Small Letter Insular R
Case Folding	"ꞃ" U+A783 Latin Small Letter Insular R
Cased	Yes
Changes When Casefolded	Yes
Changes When Casemapped	Yes
Changes When Lowercased	Yes
Changes When NFKC Casefolded	Yes
NFKC Casefold	"ꞃ" U+A783 Latin Small Letter Insular R
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ꞃ" U+A783 Latin Small Letter Insular R
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