U+10D53 "𐵓" Garay Capital Letter Ka Unicode Character

U+10D53 "𐵓" Garay Capital Letter Ka is a glyph belonging to the Garay script, a writing system invented in the 20th century for the Wolof language of West Africa. This specific character represents the capital form of the letter "Ka," corresponding to the sound /k/ in the script’s alphabetic system. The Garay script, designed to provide a culturally distinct means of writing Wolof, features both uppercase and lowercase letters, and "𐵓" is used primarily for proper nouns or the beginning of sentences. It was added to the Unicode Standard in 2024 as part of Version 16.0, helping to preserve and digitally represent this lesser-known African orthography.

General Properties

Code Point	U+10D53
Version Added	16.0
Name	Garay Capital Letter Ka
Block	Garay
General Category	Uppercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Right To Left

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	𐵓
HTML Hex Encoding	𐵓
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x90 0xB5 0x93
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD803 0xDD53
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00010D53
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud803\udd53

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	"𐵳" U+10D73 Garay Small Letter Ka
Lowercase Code Point	"𐵳" U+10D73 Garay Small Letter Ka
Simple Case Folding	"𐵳" U+10D73 Garay Small Letter Ka
Case Folding	"𐵳" U+10D73 Garay Small Letter Ka
Cased	Yes
Changes When Casefolded	Yes
Changes When Casemapped	Yes
Changes When Lowercased	Yes
Changes When NFKC Casefolded	Yes
NFKC Casefold	"𐵳" U+10D73 Garay Small Letter Ka
NFKC Simple Casefold	"𐵳" U+10D73 Garay Small Letter Ka
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