U+16EC2 "𖻂" Beria Erfe Small Letter I Unicode Character

U+16EC2 "𖻂" Beria Erfe Small Letter I is a glyph from the Beria Erfe script, a recently encoded writing system used for the Beria language (also known as Zaghawa) spoken primarily in Chad and Sudan. This character represents the vowel sound equivalent to the English letter "i" in its small letter form, which is a lowercase variant designed for use within the script's orthography. Its inclusion in Unicode facilitates digital representation and preservation of the Beria language, supporting linguistic documentation and communication for its speakers. The character belongs to the Beria Erfe block in the Supplementary Multilingual Plane, reflecting a broader effort to encode minority and historically unwritten scripts.

General Properties

Code Point	U+16EC2
Version Added	17.0
Name	Beria Erfe Small Letter I
Block	Beria Erfe
General Category	Lowercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	𖻂
HTML Hex Encoding	𖻂
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x96 0xBB 0x82
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD81B 0xDEC2
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00016EC2
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud81b\udec2

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
Lowercase	Yes
Simple Uppercase Code Point	"𖺧" U+16EA7 Beria Erfe Capital Letter I
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"𖺧" U+16EA7 Beria Erfe Capital Letter I
Uppercase Code Point	"𖺧" U+16EA7 Beria Erfe Capital Letter I
Titlecase Code Point	"𖺧" U+16EA7 Beria Erfe Capital Letter I
Cased	Yes
Changes When Casemapped	Yes
Changes When Titlecased	Yes
Changes When Uppercased	Yes
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	Lower