U+A75D "ꝝ" Latin Small Letter Rum Rotunda Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
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U+A75D "ꝝ" Latin Small Letter Rum Rotunda is a medieval typographic variant of the lowercase letter "r," historically used in Insular scripts of early Irish and Anglo-Saxon manuscripts. Its distinctive rounded, bucket-like shape, often contrasting with the more common straight-backed "r," helped scribes save space and maintain visual rhythm in dense text layouts. This character belongs to the Latin Extended-D block and is primarily employed in scholarly contexts for the accurate transcription and digital preservation of medieval documents, particularly those from Old and Middle English or Old Norse traditions.
Ꝝ
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Latin Capital Letter Rum Rotunda
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Latin Capital Letter V with Diagonal Stroke
General Properties
Code Point
U+A75D
Name
Latin Small Letter Rum Rotunda
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
ꝝ
HTML Hex Encoding
ꝝ
UTF-8 Encoding
0xEA 0x9D 0x9D
UTF-16 Encoding
0xA75D
UTF-32 Encoding
0x0000A75D
C/C++/Java Escape
\ua75d
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
Simple Uppercase Code Point
Simple Titlecase Code Point
Uppercase Code Point
Titlecase Code Point
Script Extensions
Latin