U+10D4A "" Garay Vowel Sign A Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+10D4A "" Garay Vowel Sign A is a combining diacritical mark used in the Garay script, a writing system created for the Wolof language and other languages of West Africa. It functions as a vowel sign that modifies a consonant character to represent the sound of the letter "a," serving a similar role to vowel markers in other abugida scripts. This character is part of the Garay block in Unicode, which was introduced to support the modern digital representation of the script. Its inclusion allows for proper rendering and encoding of the Wolof language in electronic text, preserving a cultural and linguistic tool for communication.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+10D4A |
| Version Added | 16.0 |
| Name | Garay Vowel Sign A |
| Block | Garay |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Right To Left |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐵊 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐵊 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0xB5 0x8A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD803 0xDD4A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00010D4A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud803\udd4a |