U+A73C "Ꜽ" Latin Capital Letter Ay Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
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U+A73C "Ꜽ" Latin Capital Letter Ay is a historical typographic symbol used in medieval and early modern Latin manuscripts, particularly as a scribal abbreviation for the Latin diphthong "ae" or "æ." It represents a distinct letterform derived from a ligature or shorthand style, and it is part of the Latin Extended-D block, which encodes characters from various European orthographies and paleographic traditions. This capital letter, along with its lowercase counterpart "ꜽ" (U+A73D), is primarily of interest to scholars of historical linguistics, manuscript studies, and typography who analyze medieval writing conventions.
General Properties
Code Point
U+A73C
Name
Latin Capital Letter Ay
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
Ꜽ
HTML Hex Encoding
Ꜽ
UTF-8 Encoding
0xEA 0x9C 0xBC
UTF-16 Encoding
0xA73C
UTF-32 Encoding
0x0000A73C
C/C++/Java Escape
\ua73c
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