U+10D74 "" Garay Small Letter Ba Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+10D74 "" Garay Small Letter Ba is a letter from the Garay script, an alphabet created by the Senegalese artist and religious leader Assane Faye in the 1960s for writing the Wolof language, along with several other languages of West Africa, such as Mandinka and Pulaar. This specific character represents the "ba" sound, akin to the English "b" consonant, and is notable for its inclusion in Unicode 15.0, released in September 2022, which ensures that the Garay script can be digitally preserved and used on modern electronic devices.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+10D74 |
| Version Added | 16.0 |
| Name | Garay Small Letter Ba |
| Block | Garay |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Right To Left |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐵴 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐵴 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0xB5 0xB4 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD803 0xDD74 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00010D74 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud803\udd74 |
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 | "" U+10D54 Garay Capital Letter Ba |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "" U+10D54 Garay Capital Letter Ba |
| Uppercase Code Point | "" U+10D54 Garay Capital Letter Ba |
| Titlecase Code Point | "" U+10D54 Garay Capital Letter Ba |
| 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 |