U+A7A9 "ꞩ" Latin Small Letter S with Oblique Stroke Unicode Character

U+A7A9 "ꞩ" Latin Small Letter S with Oblique Stroke is a historical typographic variant used primarily in medieval and early modern manuscripts, where it served as an abbreviation marker for the Latin word "sed" meaning "but" or sometimes for the letter "s" in specific scribal contexts. Its shape features a small s with a diagonal stroke cutting through its middle, distinguishing it from standard s forms. This character is encoded in the Unicode Standard's Latin Extended D block, supporting scholarly work in paleography and historical linguistics by preserving the precise orthographic details of older written documents.

General Properties

Code Point	U+A7A9
Version Added	6.0
Name	Latin Small Letter S with Oblique Stroke
Block	Latin Extended-D
General Category	Lowercase 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 0xA9
UTF-16 Encoding	0xA7A9
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000A7A9
C/C++/Java Escape	\ua7a9

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	"Ꞩ" U+A7A8 Latin Capital Letter S with Oblique Stroke
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"Ꞩ" U+A7A8 Latin Capital Letter S with Oblique Stroke
Uppercase Code Point	"Ꞩ" U+A7A8 Latin Capital Letter S with Oblique Stroke
Titlecase Code Point	"Ꞩ" U+A7A8 Latin Capital Letter S with Oblique 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