U+A783 "ꞃ" Latin Small Letter Insular R Unicode Character

U+A783 "ꞃ" Latin Small Letter Insular R is a historical typographic form of the letter R that originated in medieval Insular script, which was used primarily in Ireland and Britain. It represents a distinct allographic variant of the lowercase Latin letter r, often appearing in Old English and Old Irish manuscripts alongside its standard counterpart. This character is classified in the Unicode block for Latin Extended D and is utilized in modern digital text to accurately reproduce historical documents and scholarly editions of early medieval texts. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures that researchers, linguists, and paleographers can preserve and display ancient writing systems without resorting to visual approximations.

General Properties

Code Point	U+A783
Version Added	5.1
Name	Latin Small Letter Insular R
Block	Latin Extended-D
General Category	Lowercase 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 0x83
UTF-16 Encoding	0xA783
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000A783
C/C++/Java Escape	\ua783

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	"Ꞃ" U+A782 Latin Capital Letter Insular R
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"Ꞃ" U+A782 Latin Capital Letter Insular R
Uppercase Code Point	"Ꞃ" U+A782 Latin Capital Letter Insular R
Titlecase Code Point	"Ꞃ" U+A782 Latin Capital Letter Insular R
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