U+A7C9 "Ꟊ" Latin Capital Letter S with Short Stroke Overlay Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
Ꟊ
U+A7C9 "Ꟊ" Latin Capital Letter S with Short Stroke Overlay is a specialized typographic symbol used primarily in historical or linguistic contexts to represent a modified version of the Latin letter S. Its design features the standard capital S with a short horizontal stroke crossing the middle of the character, a diacritical overlay that can indicate a specific phonetic value or scribal abbreviation in medieval manuscripts or certain orthographies. This character is part of the Latin Extended-D block, added to Unicode to support the accurate digital representation of rare or archaic letters that appear in scholarly works on paleography and historical linguistics.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A7C9 |
| Version Added | 13.0 |
| Name | Latin Capital Letter S with Short Stroke Overlay |
| Block | Latin Extended-D |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ꟊ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ꟊ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x9F 0x89 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA7C9 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A7C9 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua7c9 |