U+A79D "ꞝ" Latin Small Letter Volapuk Oe Unicode Character

U+A79D "ꞝ" Latin Small Letter Volapuk Oe is a specialized letter used in the constructed language Volapük, created in the late 19th century by Johann Martin Schleyer. It represents the sound of the German ö or the English u in "urn," and is distinct from the standard Latin letter oe, which appears in other languages. This character was encoded in Unicode to support Volapük texts, particularly in historical or linguistic contexts where accurate transcription of the language's alphabet is required. Its usage, however, remains very rare and is primarily of interest to scholars of constructed languages or typography.

General Properties

Code Point	U+A79D
Version Added	7.0
Name	Latin Small Letter Volapuk Oe
Block	Latin Extended-D
General Category	Lowercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ꞝ
HTML Hex Encoding	ꞝ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEA 0x9E 0x9D
UTF-16 Encoding	0xA79D
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000A79D
C/C++/Java Escape	\ua79d

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	"Ꞝ" U+A79C Latin Capital Letter Volapuk Oe
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"Ꞝ" U+A79C Latin Capital Letter Volapuk Oe
Uppercase Code Point	"Ꞝ" U+A79C Latin Capital Letter Volapuk Oe
Titlecase Code Point	"Ꞝ" U+A79C Latin Capital Letter Volapuk Oe
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