U+A7A4 "Ꞥ" Latin Capital Letter N with Oblique Stroke Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
Ꞥ
U+A7A4 "Ꞥ" Latin Capital Letter N with Oblique Stroke is a modified capital N featuring a diagonal stroke cutting through its upper right to lower left, and it was added to the Unicode standard as part of the Latin Extended-D block to support historical orthographies. This letter was primarily used in medieval and early modern texts for certain European languages, such as Old Norse and Old English, where it represented a specific phonetic value, often a nasalized vowel or a palatal nasal sound. Its inclusion ensures that scholars and linguists can accurately encode and display these historical documents without resorting to makeshift or incompatible substitutions, thereby preserving the typographic nuance of early written records.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A7A4 |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Latin Capital Letter N with Oblique Stroke |
| Block | Latin Extended-D |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ꞥ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ꞥ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x9E 0xA4 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA7A4 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A7A4 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua7a4 |
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 | "ꞥ" U+A7A5 Latin Small Letter N with Oblique Stroke |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ꞥ" U+A7A5 Latin Small Letter N with Oblique Stroke |
| Simple Case Folding | "ꞥ" U+A7A5 Latin Small Letter N with Oblique Stroke |
| Case Folding | "ꞥ" U+A7A5 Latin Small Letter N with Oblique Stroke |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ꞥ" U+A7A5 Latin Small Letter N with Oblique Stroke |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ꞥ" U+A7A5 Latin Small Letter N with Oblique 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 |