U+10D70 "𐵰" Garay Small Letter A Unicode Character

U+10D70 "𐵰" Garay Small Letter A is a specific script character from the Garay alphabet, a writing system designed for the Wolof language of West Africa. This character represents a small lower case form of the vowel "a," used to transcribe the corresponding sound in the Garay script. The Garay alphabet was created by Assane Faye in the 1960s and is notable for its unique visual design, with each character having a distinct, geometric shape. U+10D70 was added to the Unicode Standard in Version 15.0 in 2022, allowing for its digital representation and use in modern text processing.

General Properties

Code Point	U+10D70
Version Added	16.0
Name	Garay Small Letter A
Block	Garay
General Category	Lowercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Right To Left

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	𐵰
HTML Hex Encoding	𐵰
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x90 0xB5 0xB0
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD803 0xDD70
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00010D70
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud803\udd70

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
Lowercase	Yes
Simple Uppercase Code Point	"𐵐" U+10D50 Garay Capital Letter A
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"𐵐" U+10D50 Garay Capital Letter A
Uppercase Code Point	"𐵐" U+10D50 Garay Capital Letter A
Titlecase Code Point	"𐵐" U+10D50 Garay Capital Letter A
Cased	Yes
Changes When Casemapped	Yes
Changes When Titlecased	Yes
Changes When Uppercased	Yes
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	Lower