U+A796 "Ꞗ" Latin Capital Letter B with Flourish Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
Ꞗ
U+A796 "Ꞗ" Latin Capital Letter B with Flourish is a typographic variant of the standard Latin letter B, designed with an ornamental flourish or swash that typically extends from the upper left or lower left stroke, giving it a decorative, calligraphic appearance. This character is part of the Latin Extended-D block and was added to Unicode to support historical and stylistic writing systems, particularly in older manuscripts or formal inscriptions where such flourishes were used for aesthetic emphasis or to distinguish certain letterforms. It is not commonly used in modern standard alphabets but serves a specialized role in academic text reproduction and digital typography for preserving historical script features.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A796 |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Latin Capital Letter B with Flourish |
| Block | Latin Extended-D |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ꞗ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ꞗ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x9E 0x96 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA796 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A796 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua796 |
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 | "ꞗ" U+A797 Latin Small Letter B with Flourish |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ꞗ" U+A797 Latin Small Letter B with Flourish |
| Simple Case Folding | "ꞗ" U+A797 Latin Small Letter B with Flourish |
| Case Folding | "ꞗ" U+A797 Latin Small Letter B with Flourish |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ꞗ" U+A797 Latin Small Letter B with Flourish |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ꞗ" U+A797 Latin Small Letter B with Flourish |
| 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 |