U+A799 "ꞙ" Latin Small Letter F with Stroke Unicode Character

U+A799 "ꞙ" Latin Small Letter F with Stroke is a typographic variant of the standard lowercase “f” that includes a horizontal stroke through its ascender, primarily used in historical and paleographic contexts for representing certain medieval scribal abbreviations or phonetic distinctions. This character is part of the Latin Extended-D block, which contains letters with diacritical marks and modifications for specialized orthographies and academic transcriptions. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures that scholars can digitally encode and preserve manuscripts and linguistic texts that require this specific letterform without relying on informal approximations.

General Properties

Code Point	U+A799
Version Added	7.0
Name	Latin Small Letter F with Stroke
Block	Latin Extended-D
General Category	Lowercase 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 0x99
UTF-16 Encoding	0xA799
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000A799
C/C++/Java Escape	\ua799

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	"Ꞙ" U+A798 Latin Capital Letter F with Stroke
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"Ꞙ" U+A798 Latin Capital Letter F with Stroke
Uppercase Code Point	"Ꞙ" U+A798 Latin Capital Letter F with Stroke
Titlecase Code Point	"Ꞙ" U+A798 Latin Capital Letter F with Stroke
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