U+10D5D "𐵝" Garay Capital Letter Ta Unicode Character

U+10D5D "𐵝" Garay Capital Letter Ta is a letter from the Garay script, a writing system invented in the 1960s by Mandingo scholar Assane Faye for writing the Wolof language of Senegal, Gambia, and Mauritania. This specific character represents the sound of the voiceless alveolar plosive consonant "t" and is used as the capital form in the Garay alphabet, which is written from right to left. The script was added to Unicode in 2022 with version 15.0 as part of a larger effort to support the encoding of historically underrepresented and culturally significant writing systems for digital communication.

General Properties

Code Point	U+10D5D
Version Added	16.0
Name	Garay Capital Letter Ta
Block	Garay
General Category	Uppercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Right To Left

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	𐵝
HTML Hex Encoding	𐵝
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x90 0xB5 0x9D
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD803 0xDD5D
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00010D5D
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud803\udd5d

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	"𐵽" U+10D7D Garay Small Letter Ta
Lowercase Code Point	"𐵽" U+10D7D Garay Small Letter Ta
Simple Case Folding	"𐵽" U+10D7D Garay Small Letter Ta
Case Folding	"𐵽" U+10D7D Garay Small Letter Ta
Cased	Yes
Changes When Casefolded	Yes
Changes When Casemapped	Yes
Changes When Lowercased	Yes
Changes When NFKC Casefolded	Yes
NFKC Casefold	"𐵽" U+10D7D Garay Small Letter Ta
NFKC Simple Casefold	"𐵽" U+10D7D Garay Small Letter Ta
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