U+A798 "Ꞙ" Latin Capital Letter F with Stroke Unicode Character

U+A798 "Ꞙ" Latin Capital Letter F with Stroke is a specialized letter used primarily in certain Latin-based orthographies, notably in the writing systems of some African languages such as Mfumte and others in the Cameroon region. It represents a distinct fricative sound, often a voiced labiodental or bilabial fricative, differing from the standard English "f" sound. The stroke through the upright stem of the capital F modifies the letter's phonetic value, and it is typically paired with its lowercase equivalent, U+A799 "ꞙ", to denote this unique consonantal phoneme in scholarly and linguistic transcriptions.

General Properties

Code Point	U+A798
Version Added	7.0
Name	Latin Capital Letter F with Stroke
Block	Latin Extended-D
General Category	Uppercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	Ꞙ
HTML Hex Encoding	Ꞙ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEA 0x9E 0x98
UTF-16 Encoding	0xA798
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000A798
C/C++/Java Escape	\ua798

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	"ꞙ" U+A799 Latin Small Letter F with Stroke
Lowercase Code Point	"ꞙ" U+A799 Latin Small Letter F with Stroke
Simple Case Folding	"ꞙ" U+A799 Latin Small Letter F with Stroke
Case Folding	"ꞙ" U+A799 Latin Small Letter F with Stroke
Cased	Yes
Changes When Casefolded	Yes
Changes When Casemapped	Yes
Changes When Lowercased	Yes
Changes When NFKC Casefolded	Yes
NFKC Casefold	"ꞙ" U+A799 Latin Small Letter F with Stroke
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ꞙ" U+A799 Latin Small Letter F with Stroke
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