U+A787 "ꞇ" Latin Small Letter Insular T Unicode Character

U+A787 "ꞇ" Latin Small Letter Insular T is a typographic variant of the letter T that was historically used in medieval Irish and Old English manuscripts, characterized by its distinctive uncial or insular script form, which often appears with a curved or hooked top stroke. It was employed in the writing of early insular languages, particularly to represent the sound /t/ in contexts where a different visual style was preferred, and it is now a part of the Unicode standard to support the digital representation of such historical texts.

General Properties

Code Point	U+A787
Version Added	5.1
Name	Latin Small Letter Insular T
Block	Latin Extended-D
General Category	Lowercase 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 0x87
UTF-16 Encoding	0xA787
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000A787
C/C++/Java Escape	\ua787

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	"Ꞇ" U+A786 Latin Capital Letter Insular T
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"Ꞇ" U+A786 Latin Capital Letter Insular T
Uppercase Code Point	"Ꞇ" U+A786 Latin Capital Letter Insular T
Titlecase Code Point	"Ꞇ" U+A786 Latin Capital Letter Insular T
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