Insular S

Insular S
Ꞅ ꞅ
Usage
Writing system	Latin
History
Development	S s Ꞅ ꞅ
Time period	600s to 800s

The letter Ꞅ (minuscule: ꞅ) is an Insular script form of the letter S. It is encoded in Unicode at U+A784 Ꞅ LATIN CAPITAL LETTER INSULAR S and U+A785 ꞅ LATIN SMALL LETTER INSULAR S.

Evolution of the Insular s from sigma: ς-s-ʃ-ſ-ꞅ

It should not be confused with the long-legged r, U+027C ɼ LATIN SMALL LETTER R WITH LONG LEG, which is an obsolete IPA symbol.

References

Insular letters in Unicode[1][2]

0

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

A

B

C

D

E

F

U+1ACx

◌ᫌ

◌ᫍ

◌ᫎ

U+1D7x

ᵹ

U+1DDx

◌ᷘ

U+204x

⁊

U+2E5x

⹒

U+A77x

Ꝺ

ꝺ

Ꝼ

ꝼ

Ᵹ

Ꝿ

ꝿ

U+A78x

Ꞃ

ꞃ

Ꞅ

ꞅ

Ꞇ

ꞇ

U+A7Dx

Ꟑ

ꟑ

Notes 1.^As of Unicode version 17.0 2.^These characters are spread across the following Unicode blocks: Combining Diacritical Marks Extended (U+1AB0–U+1AFF), Phonetic Extensions (U+1D00–U+1D7F), Combining Diacritical Marks Supplement (U+1DC0–U+1DFF), General Punctuation (U+2000–U+206F), Supplemental Punctuation (U+2E00-U+2E7F), and Latin Extended-D (U+A720–U+A7FF)