U+07DC "ߜ" NKo Letter Gba Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+07DC "ߜ" NKo Letter Gba is a glyph from the NKo script, which was created in 1949 by Solomana Kante for writing the Manding languages of West Africa, such as Maninka, Bambara, and Dyula. This specific letter represents the voiced labial-velar plosive sound /ɡ͡b/, a common phoneme in these languages, and is written from right to left, following the standard direction of the NKo script. It is encoded in the Unicode Standard within the NKo block (U+07C0 to U+07FF) to support digital text processing and preservation of the script, which is recognized by UNESCO as an important part of West African cultural heritage.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+07DC |
| Version Added | 5.0 |
| Name | NKo Letter Gba |
| Block | NKo |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Right To Left |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ߜ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ߜ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xDF 0x9C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x07DC |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000007DC |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u07dc |