U+16EAF "𖺯" Beria Erfe Capital Letter Oi Unicode Character

U+16EAF "𖺯" Beria Erfe Capital Letter Oi is part of the Beria Erfe script, an alphabet used historically for the Berta language spoken primarily in Sudan and Ethiopia. This specific character represents the capital form of the vowel sound "Oi," and it belongs to the range of Unicode characters allocated for Beria Erfe, a left to right script with distinctive curved letterforms. The character is classified under the Supplementary Multilingual Plane, and its inclusion in Unicode supports the encoding of marginalized or lesser known writing systems, helping to preserve linguistic heritage for digital communication and scholarly documentation.

General Properties

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

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	𖺯
HTML Hex Encoding	𖺯
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x96 0xBA 0xAF
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD81B 0xDEAF
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00016EAF
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud81b\udeaf

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	"𖻊" U+16ECA Beria Erfe Small Letter Oi
Lowercase Code Point	"𖻊" U+16ECA Beria Erfe Small Letter Oi
Simple Case Folding	"𖻊" U+16ECA Beria Erfe Small Letter Oi
Case Folding	"𖻊" U+16ECA Beria Erfe Small Letter Oi
Cased	Yes
Changes When Casefolded	Yes
Changes When Casemapped	Yes
Changes When Lowercased	Yes
Changes When NFKC Casefolded	Yes
NFKC Casefold	"𖻊" U+16ECA Beria Erfe Small Letter Oi
NFKC Simple Casefold	"𖻊" U+16ECA Beria Erfe Small Letter Oi
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