U+A735 "" Latin Small Letter Ao Unicode Character

Unicode Version 18.0

Source: Noto Sans Source: Browser Default

U+A735 "" Latin Small Letter Ao is a typographic ligature blending the letters A and O into a single glyph, historically used in medieval and early modern Latin scripts for representing the diphthong or digraph "ao" in certain orthographic traditions. It belongs to the Latin Extended-D block and is primarily intended for scholarly transcription of archaic manuscripts, particularly in Germanic philology and Old Norse studies, where it denotes a specific vowel sound distinct from separate A and O letters. This character is classified as a lowercase letter and has a corresponding uppercase form, U+A734 "Ꜵ" Latin Capital Letter Ao, ensuring proper casing in specialized texts.

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding
ꜵ
HTML Hex Encoding
ꜵ
UTF-8 Encoding
0xEA 0x9C 0xB5
UTF-16 Encoding
0xA735
UTF-32 Encoding
0x0000A735
C/C++/Java Escape
\ua735