U+07D3 "ߓ" NKo Letter Ba Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+07D3 "ߓ" NKo Letter Ba is the first letter of the NKo alphabet, a script invented in 1949 by Solomana Kanté for writing the Manding languages of West Africa. This character represents the voiced bilabial stop /b/ and serves as a fundamental building block in the NKo writing system, which is used for languages such as Maninka, Bambara, and Dyula. Its name "Ba" reflects both its phonetic value and its position as the initial letter in the NKo syllabary, where it begins the traditional ordering of characters that follow a pattern similar to the Arabic abjad.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+07D3 |
| Version Added | 5.0 |
| Name | NKo Letter Ba |
| Block | NKo |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Right To Left |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ߓ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ߓ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xDF 0x93 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x07D3 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000007D3 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u07d3 |