U+A7D0 "Ꟑ" Latin Capital Letter Closed Insular G Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
Ꟑ
U+A7D0 "Ꟑ" Latin Capital Letter Closed Insular G is a relatively recent addition to the standard, encoded in 2023 as part of the Latin Extended-D block, and it represents a historical typographic variant used primarily in medieval and early modern manuscripts of Insular script. This letter is characterized by its closed shape, forming a fully enclosed loop at the top similar to a scribal abbreviation, and it was employed in Old English and Old Irish texts to denote certain phonetic values or serve as a decorative initial. Its inclusion in Unicode helps scholars accurately digitize and reproduce ancient manuscripts, ensuring that these specialized characters are preserved for linguistic and paleographic research.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A7D0 |
| Version Added | 14.0 |
| Name | Latin Capital Letter Closed Insular G |
| Block | Latin Extended-D |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ꟑ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ꟑ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x9F 0x90 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA7D0 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A7D0 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua7d0 |
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 | "ꟑ" U+A7D1 Latin Small Letter Closed Insular G |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ꟑ" U+A7D1 Latin Small Letter Closed Insular G |
| Simple Case Folding | "ꟑ" U+A7D1 Latin Small Letter Closed Insular G |
| Case Folding | "ꟑ" U+A7D1 Latin Small Letter Closed Insular G |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ꟑ" U+A7D1 Latin Small Letter Closed Insular G |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ꟑ" U+A7D1 Latin Small Letter Closed Insular G |
| 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 |