U+10D57 "" Garay Capital Letter Wa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+10D57 "" Garay Capital Letter Wa is a part of the Garay script, a writing system devised by the Senegalese inventor Assane Faye in the 1960s for transcribing the Wolof language and other languages of West Africa. This character represents the syllable or sound "wa" in the Garay alphabet, and it was added to the Unicode Standard in 2024 as part of version 16.0, filling a critical need for digital representation of this historically significant script, which features a unique left to right horizontal orientation with cursive like letterforms.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+10D57 |
| Version Added | 16.0 |
| Name | Garay Capital Letter Wa |
| Block | Garay |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Right To Left |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐵗 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐵗 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0xB5 0x97 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD803 0xDD57 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00010D57 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud803\udd57 |
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 | "" U+10D77 Garay Small Letter Wa |
| Lowercase Code Point | "" U+10D77 Garay Small Letter Wa |
| Simple Case Folding | "" U+10D77 Garay Small Letter Wa |
| Case Folding | "" U+10D77 Garay Small Letter Wa |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "" U+10D77 Garay Small Letter Wa |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "" U+10D77 Garay Small Letter Wa |
| 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 |