U+10D5E "𐵞" Garay Capital Letter Ra Unicode Character

U+10D5E "𐵞" Garay Capital Letter Ra is a script-specific symbol belonging to the Garay alphabet, a writing system created in the 20th century by the Senegalese inventor Assane Faye for the Wolof language. This uppercase letter represents a particular consonantal sound, functioning as the capital form of its corresponding lowercase character within the Garay script, which was added to the Unicode Standard in version 15.0, released in September 2022. Its inclusion facilitates the digital representation and preservation of Wolof and other languages that adopt the Garay writing system, supporting cultural and linguistic documentation in West Africa.

General Properties

Code Point	U+10D5E
Version Added	16.0
Name	Garay Capital Letter Ra
Block	Garay
General Category	Uppercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Right To Left

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	𐵞
HTML Hex Encoding	𐵞
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x90 0xB5 0x9E
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD803 0xDD5E
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00010D5E
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud803\udd5e

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	"𐵾" U+10D7E Garay Small Letter Ra
Lowercase Code Point	"𐵾" U+10D7E Garay Small Letter Ra
Simple Case Folding	"𐵾" U+10D7E Garay Small Letter Ra
Case Folding	"𐵾" U+10D7E Garay Small Letter Ra
Cased	Yes
Changes When Casefolded	Yes
Changes When Casemapped	Yes
Changes When Lowercased	Yes
Changes When NFKC Casefolded	Yes
NFKC Casefold	"𐵾" U+10D7E Garay Small Letter Ra
NFKC Simple Casefold	"𐵾" U+10D7E Garay Small Letter Ra
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