U+A7C0 "Ꟁ" Latin Capital Letter Old Polish O Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+A7C0 "Ꟁ" Latin Capital Letter Old Polish O is a relatively recent addition to the standard, introduced in Unicode version 14.0 (released in September 2021), designed to represent a specific historical letter used in the Old Polish language. This character resembles a standard Latin capital O but incorporates a distinct diacritical mark, typically an acute or a similar stroke, to denote a specific vowel quality, likely a closed or narrowed pronunciation, that was necessary for accurately rendering medieval Polish texts. Its inclusion aids scholars in the faithful digital transcription and study of early Polish manuscripts, where the letter was employed before the evolution of the modern Polish alphabet standardized the representation of nasal vowels and other sounds, effectively preserving a piece of linguistic history that connects modern readers with the phonetic realities of the past.
General Properties
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding |
Ꟁ |
| HTML Hex Encoding |
Ꟁ |
| UTF-8 Encoding |
0xEA 0x9F 0x80 |
| UTF-16 Encoding |
0xA7C0 |
| UTF-32 Encoding |
0x0000A7C0 |
| C/C++/Java Escape |
\ua7c0 |
Unicode Properties