U+10D55 "𐵕" Garay Capital Letter Ja Unicode Character

U+10D55 "𐵕" Garay Capital Letter Ja is a character from the Garay script, a writing system created in the 1960s by Senegalese inventor Assane Faye for the Wolof language. This specific glyph represents the capital form of the letter corresponding to the sound "ja" and is part of a block that was added to the Unicode Standard in 2024 with version 16.0. The Garay alphabet was designed to provide a native script for Wolof, and its encoded capitals like this one help distinguish proper nouns and sentence beginnings, expanding the digital representation of this African writing system.

General Properties

Code Point	U+10D55
Version Added	16.0
Name	Garay Capital Letter Ja
Block	Garay
General Category	Uppercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Right To Left

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	𐵕
HTML Hex Encoding	𐵕
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x90 0xB5 0x95
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD803 0xDD55
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00010D55
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud803\udd55

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	"𐵵" U+10D75 Garay Small Letter Ja
Lowercase Code Point	"𐵵" U+10D75 Garay Small Letter Ja
Simple Case Folding	"𐵵" U+10D75 Garay Small Letter Ja
Case Folding	"𐵵" U+10D75 Garay Small Letter Ja
Cased	Yes
Changes When Casefolded	Yes
Changes When Casemapped	Yes
Changes When Lowercased	Yes
Changes When NFKC Casefolded	Yes
NFKC Casefold	"𐵵" U+10D75 Garay Small Letter Ja
NFKC Simple Casefold	"𐵵" U+10D75 Garay Small Letter Ja
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