U+A7C2 "Ꟃ" Latin Capital Letter Anglicana W Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
Ꟃ
U+A7C2 "Ꟃ" Latin Capital Letter Anglicana W is a specialized typographic glyph used in historical and paleographic contexts, primarily representing a distinct form of the letter "W" found in Anglicana script, a medieval English handwriting style. Unlike the standard Latin capital W, this character features a more angular, calligraphic shape with a closed top and looped or serifed strokes, reflecting the scribal conventions of Middle English manuscripts. It was added to Unicode as part of efforts to accurately encode medieval and early modern textual variants, aiding scholars in digital transcriptions and philological studies of documents from that period.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A7C2 |
| Version Added | 12.0 |
| Name | Latin Capital Letter Anglicana W |
| Block | Latin Extended-D |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ꟃ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ꟃ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x9F 0x82 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA7C2 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A7C2 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua7c2 |
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 | "ꟃ" U+A7C3 Latin Small Letter Anglicana W |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ꟃ" U+A7C3 Latin Small Letter Anglicana W |
| Simple Case Folding | "ꟃ" U+A7C3 Latin Small Letter Anglicana W |
| Case Folding | "ꟃ" U+A7C3 Latin Small Letter Anglicana W |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ꟃ" U+A7C3 Latin Small Letter Anglicana W |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ꟃ" U+A7C3 Latin Small Letter Anglicana W |
| 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 |