U+A7FF "ꟿ" Latin Epigraphic Letter Archaic M Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꟿ
U+A7FF "ꟿ" Latin Epigraphic Letter Archaic M is a specialized glyph used primarily in epigraphy and historical linguistics to represent a particular form of the letter M found in ancient Latin and other early Italic inscriptions. This character differs from the standard Latin letter M by having an open, angular, or otherwise stylized shape that reflects the script variations present in archaic writing systems before the Roman alphabet became standardized. Its inclusion in the Unicode standard allows scholars and digital text processors to accurately transcribe and publish ancient inscriptions without resorting to improvised or approximate characters, thus preserving the historical fidelity of the written source material.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A7FF |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Latin Epigraphic Letter Archaic M |
| Block | Latin Extended-D |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꟿ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꟿ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x9F 0xBF |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA7FF |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A7FF |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua7ff |