U+A7B9 "ꞹ" Latin Small Letter U with Stroke Unicode Character

U+A7B9 "ꞹ" Latin Small Letter U with Stroke is a specialized letter used primarily in certain orthographies and historical or phonetic transcriptions, most notably in the writing system for the Tlingit language of the Pacific Northwest. It represents a distinct vowel sound, often a high back uncounded or centralized vowel, where the stroke through the letter visually modifies the standard Latin 'u' to indicate a different phonetic quality or to distinguish it from a plain 'u' in minimal pairs. This character is part of the Latin Extended-D block and serves to support the precise documentation and preservation of endangered or minority languages requiring glyphs beyond the basic Latin alphabet.

General Properties

Code Point	U+A7B9
Version Added	11.0
Name	Latin Small Letter U with Stroke
Block	Latin Extended-D
General Category	Lowercase 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 0xB9
UTF-16 Encoding	0xA7B9
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000A7B9
C/C++/Java Escape	\ua7b9

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	"Ꞹ" U+A7B8 Latin Capital Letter U with Stroke
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"Ꞹ" U+A7B8 Latin Capital Letter U with Stroke
Uppercase Code Point	"Ꞹ" U+A7B8 Latin Capital Letter U with Stroke
Titlecase Code Point	"Ꞹ" U+A7B8 Latin Capital Letter U with 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