U+A786 "Ꞇ" Latin Capital Letter Insular T Unicode Character
U+A786 "Ꞇ" Latin Capital Letter Insular T is a specialized typographic form derived from medieval insular script, where it represented the sound /t/ in Old and Middle English manuscripts, often distinguished from the regular T by its distinctive shape, which resembles a modern T but with a half-uncial or uncial style featuring a curved, often elongated ascender. It is used in modern orthographic transcriptions for historical texts and in some contemporary language revitalization efforts, particularly for the Manx language, where it appears in certain nouns and place names. The character is part of the Latin Extended-D block and is a case-paired uppercase version, with its lowercase counterpart, U+A787 "ꞇ" Latin Small Letter Insular T, used in the same contexts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A786 |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Latin Capital Letter Insular T |
| Block | Latin Extended-D |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ꞇ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ꞇ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x9E 0x86 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA786 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A786 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua786 |
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 | "ꞇ" U+A787 Latin Small Letter Insular T |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ꞇ" U+A787 Latin Small Letter Insular T |
| Simple Case Folding | "ꞇ" U+A787 Latin Small Letter Insular T |
| Case Folding | "ꞇ" U+A787 Latin Small Letter Insular T |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ꞇ" U+A787 Latin Small Letter Insular T |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ꞇ" U+A787 Latin Small Letter Insular T |
| 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 |