U+A7B8 "Ꞹ" Latin Capital Letter U with Stroke Unicode Character

U+A7B8 "Ꞹ" Latin Capital Letter U with Stroke is a relatively rare glyph used primarily in historical and linguistic contexts, particularly for the transcription of certain African languages. It consists of the standard uppercase letter U with a horizontal line, or stroke, crossing through its middle, which serves to modify the vowel's phonetic value, often representing a centralized or reduced sound. Introduced as part of the Latin Extended-D block to support orthographic needs, this character helps distinguish specific vowel qualities in written text, though it is not commonly found in everyday typography.

General Properties

Code Point	U+A7B8
Version Added	11.0
Name	Latin Capital Letter U with Stroke
Block	Latin Extended-D
General Category	Uppercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	Ꞹ
HTML Hex Encoding	Ꞹ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEA 0x9E 0xB8
UTF-16 Encoding	0xA7B8
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000A7B8
C/C++/Java Escape	\ua7b8

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	"ꞹ" U+A7B9 Latin Small Letter U with Stroke
Lowercase Code Point	"ꞹ" U+A7B9 Latin Small Letter U with Stroke
Simple Case Folding	"ꞹ" U+A7B9 Latin Small Letter U with Stroke
Case Folding	"ꞹ" U+A7B9 Latin Small Letter U with Stroke
Cased	Yes
Changes When Casefolded	Yes
Changes When Casemapped	Yes
Changes When Lowercased	Yes
Changes When NFKC Casefolded	Yes
NFKC Casefold	"ꞹ" U+A7B9 Latin Small Letter U with Stroke
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ꞹ" U+A7B9 Latin Small Letter U with 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