U+16EA1 "𖺡" Beria Erfe Capital Letter Basigna Unicode Character
U+16EA1 "𖺡" Beria Erfe Capital Letter Basigna is a distinctive glyph from the Beria Erfe script, which was historically used to write the Beria language, also known as Zaghawa, spoken by communities in Chad and Sudan. This capital letter represents a specific sound in the language's phonological system, possibly corresponding to a voiced bilabial or similar consonant, and its inclusion in Unicode helps preserve and digitally encode a writing system that has faced decline due to social and political pressures. The script itself features a unique, angular aesthetic, and this particular character plays a role in documenting the linguistic heritage of the Beria people, ensuring that their written tradition remains accessible for modern scholarship and cultural preservation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+16EA1 |
| Version Added | 17.0 |
| Name | Beria Erfe Capital Letter Basigna |
| Block | Beria Erfe |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𖺡 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𖺡 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x96 0xBA 0xA1 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81B 0xDEA1 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00016EA1 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81b\udea1 |
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 | "𖺼" U+16EBC Beria Erfe Small Letter Basigna |
| Lowercase Code Point | "𖺼" U+16EBC Beria Erfe Small Letter Basigna |
| Simple Case Folding | "𖺼" U+16EBC Beria Erfe Small Letter Basigna |
| Case Folding | "𖺼" U+16EBC Beria Erfe Small Letter Basigna |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "𖺼" U+16EBC Beria Erfe Small Letter Basigna |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "𖺼" U+16EBC Beria Erfe Small Letter Basigna |
| 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 |