U+07CA "ߊ" NKo Letter A Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+07CA "ߊ" NKo Letter A is the first letter of the NKo alphabet, a script designed in 1949 by Solomana Kante for writing the Manding languages of West Africa, such as Maninka, Bambara, and Dyula. This character represents the open front vowel sound /a/ and serves as a fundamental building block in NKo orthography, which is written from right to left. Its inclusion in the Unicode standard at code point U+07CA, within the NKo block (U+07C0 to U+07FF), ensures that digital text in these languages can be accurately represented and exchanged across modern computing systems, supporting literacy and cultural preservation for millions of speakers.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+07CA |
| Version Added | 5.0 |
| Name | NKo Letter A |
| Block | NKo |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Right To Left |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ߊ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ߊ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xDF 0x8A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x07CA |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000007CA |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u07ca |