U021C

U021C, often written as U+021C, is the Unicode code point for the Latin capital letter yogh, represented by the character Ȝ. It resides in the Latin Extended-B block of Unicode. The corresponding lowercase form is ȝ (U+021D). Together they are known as the Latin yogh letters.

Historically, yogh was used in various orthographies of Middle English and Scots to represent several distinct sounds, with its exact value varying by time and dialect. In modern English, yogh is considered obsolete, though it appears in scholarly editions and linguistic discussions of historical texts. In Scots, the letter has influenced spellings and digraphs, and some spellings in historical sources retain the yogh character for fidelity to the original manuscript.

In terms of encoding and rendering, U+021C can be included in text with a hexadecimal numeric character reference like Ȝ or a decimal reference of Ȝ. Rendering depends on the font; not all fonts include Ȝ, and missing font support may cause fallback to a similar-looking character. This can lead to misreading or confusion when viewing older texts or datasets that mix yogh with other Latin letters.

See also: LATIN SMALL LETTER YOGH (U+021D), Yogh, Unicode Latin Extended-B. U021C is primarily of interest in typography, philology, and digital humanities contexts dealing with historical English and Scots texts.