U+A7A8 "Ꞩ" Latin Capital Letter S with Oblique Stroke Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
Ꞩ
U+A7A8 "Ꞩ" Latin Capital Letter S with Oblique Stroke is a distinctive typographic variant of the Latin letter S, featuring a diagonal stroke across its body. Historically, this character was used in several European orthographies, most notably in Latvian and Livonian languages during the 19th and early 20th centuries, where it represented a voiceless palatal fricative sound similar to the "sh" in English. Although its use has largely fallen out of favor in modern standard Latvian writing, it remains a key part of historical and linguistic documentation, preserved in Unicode for accurate representation of pre-reform texts and scholarly work.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A7A8 |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Latin Capital Letter S 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 | Ꞩ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ꞩ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x9E 0xA8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA7A8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A7A8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua7a8 |
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 | "ꞩ" U+A7A9 Latin Small Letter S with Oblique Stroke |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ꞩ" U+A7A9 Latin Small Letter S with Oblique Stroke |
| Simple Case Folding | "ꞩ" U+A7A9 Latin Small Letter S with Oblique Stroke |
| Case Folding | "ꞩ" U+A7A9 Latin Small Letter S with Oblique Stroke |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ꞩ" U+A7A9 Latin Small Letter S with Oblique Stroke |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ꞩ" U+A7A9 Latin Small Letter S 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 |