U+A7C4 "Ꞔ" Latin Capital Letter C with Palatal Hook Unicode Character
U+A7C4 "Ꞔ" Latin Capital Letter C with Palatal Hook is a specialized typographic symbol used primarily in historical or phonetic transcriptions of certain languages, representing a modified version of the letter "C" where the palatal hook indicates a palatalized pronunciation, often found in Slavic linguistics or in the writing of some minority languages. Unlike standard Latin alphabet characters, this letter is rare in modern digital texts but has been encoded in Unicode to support scholarly and linguistic documentation, preserving an orthographic detail that distinguishes palatalized sounds from their non-palatalized counterparts. Its appearance combines the familiar shape of a capital C with a small hook attached to the top right, following the typographic conventions for palatalization marks in extended Latin script.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A7C4 |
| Version Added | 12.0 |
| Name | Latin Capital Letter C with Palatal Hook |
| Block | Latin Extended-D |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ꞔ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ꞔ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x9F 0x84 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA7C4 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A7C4 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua7c4 |
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 | "ꞔ" U+A794 Latin Small Letter C with Palatal Hook |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ꞔ" U+A794 Latin Small Letter C with Palatal Hook |
| Simple Case Folding | "ꞔ" U+A794 Latin Small Letter C with Palatal Hook |
| Case Folding | "ꞔ" U+A794 Latin Small Letter C with Palatal Hook |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ꞔ" U+A794 Latin Small Letter C with Palatal Hook |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ꞔ" U+A794 Latin Small Letter C with Palatal Hook |
| 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 |