U+10D5B "" Garay Capital Letter Xa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+10D5B "" Garay Capital Letter Xa is a script character from the Garay alphabet, which was designed in the 20th century by Senegalese inventor Assane Faye for writing the Mandinka language and other West African languages. This particular character represents the capital form of the letter "Xa," corresponding to a specific consonantal sound in the Garay writing system. The Garay script is written from left to right and features both uppercase and lowercase letter forms, with this capital letter being used primarily at the beginning of sentences or for proper nouns. Its inclusion in Unicode helps preserve and support digital use of this indigenous African script for modern communication and cultural expression.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+10D5B |
| Version Added | 16.0 |
| Name | Garay Capital Letter Xa |
| Block | Garay |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Right To Left |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐵛 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐵛 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0xB5 0x9B |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD803 0xDD5B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00010D5B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud803\udd5b |
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+10D7B Garay Small Letter Xa |
| Lowercase Code Point | "" U+10D7B Garay Small Letter Xa |
| Simple Case Folding | "" U+10D7B Garay Small Letter Xa |
| Case Folding | "" U+10D7B Garay Small Letter Xa |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "" U+10D7B Garay Small Letter Xa |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "" U+10D7B Garay Small Letter Xa |
| 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 |