U+A779 "Ꝺ" Latin Capital Letter Insular D Unicode Character
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U+A779 "Ꝺ" Latin Capital Letter Insular D is a typographic variant of the Latin letter D, historically used in medieval manuscripts of the Insular script tradition, particularly in Irish and Old English writing. It features a distinctive rounded, uncial-like shape that differs from the standard Carolingian or modern Roman D. This character was employed to represent the same phonetic sound as the regular letter D, but its use later declined as scribal conventions shifted. It is now primarily of interest to paleographers, linguists, and digital typographers working with historical texts or fonts aiming to replicate early medieval orthography.
General Properties
Code Point
U+A779
Name
Latin Capital Letter Insular D
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
Ꝺ
HTML Hex Encoding
Ꝺ
UTF-8 Encoding
0xEA 0x9D 0xB9
UTF-16 Encoding
0xA779
UTF-32 Encoding
0x0000A779
C/C++/Java Escape
\ua779
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