U+07D8 "ߘ" NKo Letter Da Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+07D8 "ߘ" NKo Letter Da is a character from the NKo script, a writing system invented in 1949 by Solomana Kanté for the Manding languages of West Africa, such as Maninka, Bambara, and Dyula. This specific letter represents the voiced dental or alveolar plosive sound /d/ and is used as a consonant in the NKo alphabet. It belongs to the NKo block in Unicode (range U+07C0 to U+07FF) and is written from right to left, in keeping with the script's overall direction. The character is encoded in Unicode version 5.0, which was released in 2006, to support the digital representation of this historically significant writing system.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+07D8 |
| Version Added | 5.0 |
| Name | NKo Letter Da |
| Block | NKo |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Right To Left |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ߘ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ߘ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xDF 0x98 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x07D8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000007D8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u07d8 |