U+16EA0 "𖺠" Beria Erfe Capital Letter Arkab Unicode Character

U+16EA0 "𖺠" Beria Erfe Capital Letter Arkab is part of the Beria Erfe script, a writing system devised for the Zaghawa language spoken in Chad and Sudan. This specific character represents the capital form of the letter "Arkab," which corresponds to the sound /ʔ/ or a glottal stop, a phonetic element found within the language's phonemic inventory. The Beria Erfe script was created in the 20th century and is notable for its geometric shapes, with this character being one of several uppercase letters used in specific orthographic contexts, such as proper names or the beginning of sentences.

General Properties

Code Point	U+16EA0
Version Added	17.0
Name	Beria Erfe Capital Letter Arkab
Block	Beria Erfe
General Category	Uppercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	𖺠
HTML Hex Encoding	𖺠
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x96 0xBA 0xA0
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD81B 0xDEA0
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00016EA0
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud81b\udea0

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	"𖺻" U+16EBB Beria Erfe Small Letter Arkab
Lowercase Code Point	"𖺻" U+16EBB Beria Erfe Small Letter Arkab
Simple Case Folding	"𖺻" U+16EBB Beria Erfe Small Letter Arkab
Case Folding	"𖺻" U+16EBB Beria Erfe Small Letter Arkab
Cased	Yes
Changes When Casefolded	Yes
Changes When Casemapped	Yes
Changes When Lowercased	Yes
Changes When NFKC Casefolded	Yes
NFKC Casefold	"𖺻" U+16EBB Beria Erfe Small Letter Arkab
NFKC Simple Casefold	"𖺻" U+16EBB Beria Erfe Small Letter Arkab
Script	Beria Erfe
Script Extensions	Beria Erfe
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