U+10D77 "" Garay Small Letter Wa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+10D77 "" Garay Small Letter Wa is a lowercase letter from the Garay script, an alphabetic writing system created by Assane Faye of Senegal for the Wolof language. This specific character represents the sound "wa" and is considered a small or lowercase form within its alphabet. The Garay script is notable for being a modern invention designed to write the Wolof language with distinct letter shapes that resemble no other major writing system, and it was added to the Unicode Standard in version 16.0 in 2024.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+10D77 |
| Version Added | 16.0 |
| Name | Garay Small Letter Wa |
| Block | Garay |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Right To Left |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐵷 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐵷 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0xB5 0xB7 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD803 0xDD77 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00010D77 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud803\udd77 |
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+10D57 Garay Capital Letter Wa |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "" U+10D57 Garay Capital Letter Wa |
| Uppercase Code Point | "" U+10D57 Garay Capital Letter Wa |
| Titlecase Code Point | "" U+10D57 Garay Capital Letter Wa |
| 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 |