U+A73C "" Latin Capital Letter Ay Unicode Character

Unicode Version 18.0

Source: Noto Sans Source: Browser Default

U+A73C "" 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.

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