U+A7CD "ꟍ" Latin Small Letter S with Diagonal Stroke Unicode Character

U+A7CD "ꟍ" Latin Small Letter S with Diagonal Stroke is a historical typographic variant of the lowercase Latin letter S, distinguished by a diagonal line crossing through its bowl. This glyph was primarily used in early modern Latin manuscripts and printed texts, particularly in certain orthographic systems such as those for transliterating Semitic languages or marking abbreviations, where it represented a distinct phonetic value or served as a shorthand scribal mark. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures that scholars and digital typographers can accurately represent and preserve rare textual examples from historical documents without resorting to improvised substitutes.

General Properties

Code Point	U+A7CD
Version Added	16.0
Name	Latin Small Letter S with Diagonal Stroke
Block	Latin Extended-D
General Category	Lowercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ꟍ
HTML Hex Encoding	ꟍ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEA 0x9F 0x8D
UTF-16 Encoding	0xA7CD
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000A7CD
C/C++/Java Escape	\ua7cd

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	"Ꟍ" U+A7CC Latin Capital Letter S with Diagonal Stroke
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"Ꟍ" U+A7CC Latin Capital Letter S with Diagonal Stroke
Uppercase Code Point	"Ꟍ" U+A7CC Latin Capital Letter S with Diagonal Stroke
Titlecase Code Point	"Ꟍ" U+A7CC Latin Capital Letter S with Diagonal Stroke
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