U+07DE "ߞ" NKo Letter Ka Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+07DE "ߞ" NKo Letter Ka is a symbol from the NKo alphabet, a script created in 1949 by Solomana Kanté for the Manding languages of West Africa, including Maninka, Bambara, and Dyula. This letter represents the voiceless velar plosive sound /k/, a fundamental consonant in these languages, and it is written from right to left, following the direction of the NKo script. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures that digital text and communication in NKo can be accurately represented and preserved across modern software and devices.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+07DE |
| Version Added | 5.0 |
| Name | NKo Letter Ka |
| Block | NKo |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Right To Left |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ߞ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ߞ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xDF 0x9E |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x07DE |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000007DE |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u07de |