U+16EB4 "" Beria Erfe Capital Letter Shep Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+16EB4 "" Beria Erfe Capital Letter Shep is a glyph from the Beria Erfe script, which was historically used to write the Beria language in parts of West Africa, specifically associated with the Zaghawa people. This character represents a capital form of the letter "Shep," corresponding to a specific consonantal sound in the language. It is part of a larger Unicode block dedicated to the Beria Erfe writing system, which was encoded to support digital preservation and research of this minority script. The letter's design reflects the unique calligraphic features of the script, which uses distinct shapes to differentiate uppercase and lowercase forms.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+16EB4 |
| Version Added | 17.0 |
| Name | Beria Erfe Capital Letter Shep |
| Block | Beria Erfe |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𖺴 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𖺴 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x96 0xBA 0xB4 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81B 0xDEB4 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00016EB4 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81b\udeb4 |
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 | "" U+16ECF Beria Erfe Small Letter Shep |
| Lowercase Code Point | "" U+16ECF Beria Erfe Small Letter Shep |
| Simple Case Folding | "" U+16ECF Beria Erfe Small Letter Shep |
| Case Folding | "" U+16ECF Beria Erfe Small Letter Shep |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "" U+16ECF Beria Erfe Small Letter Shep |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "" U+16ECF Beria Erfe Small Letter Shep |
| 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 |