U+07E5 "ߥ" NKo Letter Wa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+07E5 "ߥ" NKo Letter Wa is a character in the NKo script, which was specifically designed for writing the Manding languages of West Africa, including Maninka, Bambara, and Dyula. Represented by a distinctive curved shape, this letter corresponds to the sound /w/ and is an integral part of the NKo alphabet, which is written from right to left. The NKo script was created in 1949 by Solomana Kante as a unifying writing system for Mande-speaking peoples, and the letter Wa helps preserve and promote literacy in these languages within their cultural and digital contexts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+07E5 |
| Version Added | 5.0 |
| Name | NKo Letter Wa |
| Block | NKo |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Right To Left |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ߥ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ߥ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xDF 0xA5 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x07E5 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000007E5 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u07e5 |