U+16EA9 "𖺩" Beria Erfe Capital Letter Kobo Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𖺩
U+16EA9 "𖺩" Beria Erfe Capital Letter Kobo is a writing symbol used in the Beria Erfe script, an alphabetic system historically employed for the Zaghawa language spoken in parts of Chad and Sudan. This specific character represents the capital form of the letter "Kobo," which corresponds to the sound /k/ in the language. Its inclusion in the Unicode standard underscores efforts to preserve and digitally encode minority scripts that are at risk of falling out of use, ensuring that texts written in the Beria Erfe script can be accurately stored and displayed across modern computing platforms.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+16EA9 |
| Version Added | 17.0 |
| Name | Beria Erfe Capital Letter Kobo |
| Block | Beria Erfe |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𖺩 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𖺩 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x96 0xBA 0xA9 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81B 0xDEA9 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00016EA9 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81b\udea9 |
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 | "ð–»„" U+16EC4 Beria Erfe Small Letter Kobo |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ð–»„" U+16EC4 Beria Erfe Small Letter Kobo |
| Simple Case Folding | "ð–»„" U+16EC4 Beria Erfe Small Letter Kobo |
| Case Folding | "ð–»„" U+16EC4 Beria Erfe Small Letter Kobo |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ð–»„" U+16EC4 Beria Erfe Small Letter Kobo |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ð–»„" U+16EC4 Beria Erfe Small Letter Kobo |
| 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 |