U+A734 "Ꜵ" Latin Capital Letter Ao Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
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U+A734 "Ꜵ" Latin Capital Letter Ao is a typographic ligature representing the double vowel combination of A and O, used historically in certain medieval and early modern manuscripts as a single letter within the Latin alphabet. It belongs to the Latin Extended-D block, which includes characters for medievalist and phonetic transcription purposes. This character, along with its lowercase counterpart U+A735, is particularly associated with the writing of Old Norse and other early Germanic languages, where it simplified the spelling of diphthongs or long vowels in scholarly editions and philological texts.
General Properties
Code Point
U+A734
Name
Latin Capital Letter Ao
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
Ꜵ
HTML Hex Encoding
Ꜵ
UTF-8 Encoding
0xEA 0x9C 0xB4
UTF-16 Encoding
0xA734
UTF-32 Encoding
0x0000A734
C/C++/Java Escape
\ua734
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
Simple Lowercase Code Point
Lowercase Code Point
Simple Case Folding
Case Folding
NFKC Casefold
NFKC Simple Casefold
Script Extensions
Latin