U+A79A "Ꞛ" Latin Capital Letter Volapuk Ae Unicode Character

U+A79A "Ꞛ" Latin Capital Letter Volapuk Ae is a specialized glyph used in the constructed language Volapük, which was created in the late 19th century by Johann Martin Schleyer. This character represents a specific vowel sound, a ligature of 'a' and 'e', intended to simplify spelling or denote a distinct phonetic value within the language's orthography. It is part of the Latin Extended-D block, which includes various historical and linguistic symbols, and its use is largely confined to scholarly texts or digital representations of Volapük, as the language itself has relatively few modern speakers.

General Properties

Code Point	U+A79A
Version Added	7.0
Name	Latin Capital Letter Volapuk Ae
Block	Latin Extended-D
General Category	Uppercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	Ꞛ
HTML Hex Encoding	Ꞛ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEA 0x9E 0x9A
UTF-16 Encoding	0xA79A
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000A79A
C/C++/Java Escape	\ua79a

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	"ꞛ" U+A79B Latin Small Letter Volapuk Ae
Lowercase Code Point	"ꞛ" U+A79B Latin Small Letter Volapuk Ae
Simple Case Folding	"ꞛ" U+A79B Latin Small Letter Volapuk Ae
Case Folding	"ꞛ" U+A79B Latin Small Letter Volapuk Ae
Cased	Yes
Changes When Casefolded	Yes
Changes When Casemapped	Yes
Changes When Lowercased	Yes
Changes When NFKC Casefolded	Yes
NFKC Casefold	"ꞛ" U+A79B Latin Small Letter Volapuk Ae
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ꞛ" U+A79B Latin Small Letter Volapuk Ae
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