U+10D5C "𐵜" Garay Capital Letter Ya Unicode Character

U+10D5C "𐵜" Garay Capital Letter Ya is a character from the Garay script, a writing system created in the 20th century by the Senegalese inventor Assane Faye for the Wolof language and other languages of West Africa. This specific glyph represents the capital form of the letter corresponding to the sound ya, and it was added to the Unicode Standard in 2022 as part of version 15.0 to support digital representation of the Garay alphabet. The script features a unique, geometric style with distinct uppercase and lowercase forms, and this capital Ya is used at the beginning of sentences or proper nouns within the system.

General Properties

Code Point	U+10D5C
Version Added	16.0
Name	Garay Capital Letter Ya
Block	Garay
General Category	Uppercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Right To Left

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	𐵜
HTML Hex Encoding	𐵜
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x90 0xB5 0x9C
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD803 0xDD5C
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00010D5C
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud803\udd5c

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	"𐵼" U+10D7C Garay Small Letter Ya
Lowercase Code Point	"𐵼" U+10D7C Garay Small Letter Ya
Simple Case Folding	"𐵼" U+10D7C Garay Small Letter Ya
Case Folding	"𐵼" U+10D7C Garay Small Letter Ya
Cased	Yes
Changes When Casefolded	Yes
Changes When Casemapped	Yes
Changes When Lowercased	Yes
Changes When NFKC Casefolded	Yes
NFKC Casefold	"𐵼" U+10D7C Garay Small Letter Ya
NFKC Simple Casefold	"𐵼" U+10D7C Garay Small Letter Ya
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