U+A7CC "" Latin Capital Letter S with Diagonal Stroke Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+A7CC "" Latin Capital Letter S with Diagonal Stroke is a relatively recent addition to the standard, intended for use in historical and linguistic documentation, particularly for medieval Latin and certain archaic orthographies. This letter represents a variant form of the capital S that was used in some early printed and handwritten texts, where a diagonal stroke crosses the character, typically to indicate an abbreviation or a special phonetic value. Its inclusion in the Unicode standard helps scholars and typographers accurately represent and digitize historical manuscripts, ensuring that such specialized glyphs are preserved for academic and digital use.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A7CC |
| Version Added | 16.0 |
| Name | Latin Capital Letter S with Diagonal Stroke |
| Block | Latin Extended-D |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ꟍ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ꟍ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x9F 0x8C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA7CC |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A7CC |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua7cc |
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 | "" U+A7CD Latin Small Letter S with Diagonal Stroke |
| Lowercase Code Point | "" U+A7CD Latin Small Letter S with Diagonal Stroke |
| Simple Case Folding | "" U+A7CD Latin Small Letter S with Diagonal Stroke |
| Case Folding | "" U+A7CD Latin Small Letter S with Diagonal Stroke |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "" U+A7CD Latin Small Letter S with Diagonal Stroke |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "" U+A7CD Latin Small Letter S with Diagonal Stroke |
| 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 |