U+10D50 "𐵐" Garay Capital Letter A Unicode Character

U+10D50 "𐵐" Garay Capital Letter A is a character in the Garay script, a writing system created in the 1960s by Senegalese inventor Assane Faye for the Wolof language of West Africa. This specific character represents the capital form of the first letter in the alphabet, corresponding to the vowel sound "a". The Garay script, which is written from right to left, was added to Unicode as part of version 15.0 in 2022 to support digital preservation of the language and its cultural heritage, and the character's inclusion helps enable text processing and display for this modern, indigenously developed script.

General Properties

Code Point	U+10D50
Version Added	16.0
Name	Garay Capital Letter A
Block	Garay
General Category	Uppercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Right To Left

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	𐵐
HTML Hex Encoding	𐵐
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x90 0xB5 0x90
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD803 0xDD50
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00010D50
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud803\udd50

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFD Quick Check	Yes
NFKC Quick Check	Yes
NFKD Quick Check	Yes
Numeric Type	None
Numeric Value	NaN
Line Break	Alphabetic
Uppercase	Yes
Simple Lowercase Code Point	"𐵰" U+10D70 Garay Small Letter A
Lowercase Code Point	"𐵰" U+10D70 Garay Small Letter A
Simple Case Folding	"𐵰" U+10D70 Garay Small Letter A
Case Folding	"𐵰" U+10D70 Garay Small Letter A
Cased	Yes
Changes When Casefolded	Yes
Changes When Casemapped	Yes
Changes When Lowercased	Yes
Changes When NFKC Casefolded	Yes
NFKC Casefold	"𐵰" U+10D70 Garay Small Letter A
NFKC Simple Casefold	"𐵰" U+10D70 Garay Small Letter A
Script	Garay
Script Extensions	Garay
Indic Syllabic Category	Other
ID Start	Yes
XID Start	Yes
ID Continue	Yes
XID Continue	Yes
Alphabetic	Yes
Vertical Orientation	Rotated
Grapheme Base	Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break	Other
Word Break	Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break	Upper