U+A7C3 "ꟃ" Latin Small Letter Anglicana W Unicode Character

U+A7C3 "ꟃ" Latin Small Letter Anglicana W is a specialized typographic form representing the letter "W" as it appeared in the Anglicana script, a medieval English handwriting style used primarily from the 13th to the 15th centuries. This character was added to the Unicode standard in 2021 as part of the Latin Extended-D block to support historical documents and textual scholarship. Its design features a distinctive rounded, cursive shape with a closed or overlapping upper loop, reflecting the calligraphic conventions of its era. The character helps scholars accurately encode and reproduce medieval manuscripts, particularly those in Middle English, where this variant of the letter "W" frequently appears.

General Properties

Code Point	U+A7C3
Version Added	12.0
Name	Latin Small Letter Anglicana W
Block	Latin Extended-D
General Category	Lowercase 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 0x83
UTF-16 Encoding	0xA7C3
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000A7C3
C/C++/Java Escape	\ua7c3

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	"Ꟃ" U+A7C2 Latin Capital Letter Anglicana W
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"Ꟃ" U+A7C2 Latin Capital Letter Anglicana W
Uppercase Code Point	"Ꟃ" U+A7C2 Latin Capital Letter Anglicana W
Titlecase Code Point	"Ꟃ" U+A7C2 Latin Capital Letter Anglicana W
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