U+A76C "Ꝭ" Latin Capital Letter Is Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
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U+A76C "Ꝭ" Latin Capital Letter Is is a historical typographic ligature representing the Latin word "IS," once used in medieval and early modern manuscripts as a scribal abbreviation to save space. It belongs to the Latin Extended-D block, which contains various pre-composed letter forms from ancient and medieval scripts. This character is distinct from the regular letters I and S, functioning as a single glyph that compactly signifies the two-letter word. Though rarely needed in modern text, it is encoded for scholarly reproduction of historical documents, particularly those from Old English or Irish contexts where such abbreviations were common.
General Properties
Code Point
U+A76C
Name
Latin Capital Letter Is
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
Ꝭ
HTML Hex Encoding
Ꝭ
UTF-8 Encoding
0xEA 0x9D 0xAC
UTF-16 Encoding
0xA76C
UTF-32 Encoding
0x0000A76C
C/C++/Java Escape
\ua76c
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