U+16EC9 "𖻉" Beria Erfe Small Letter Ngay Unicode Character

U+16EC9 "𖻉" Beria Erfe Small Letter Ngay is a glyph from the Beria Erfe script, which is a featural alphabet used historically for the Beria (also known as Zaghawa) language spoken in parts of Chad and Sudan. This specific character represents the sound "ngay," akin to the "ng" in the English word "sing," and is the capital form of the letter in a system where script direction and letter shapes convey phonetic and syllabic distinctions. It belongs to the Unicode block for Beria Erfe, encoded in version 8.0 of the Unicode Standard to support the preservation and digital representation of this minority language's writing system, which was developed based on the calligraphic style of traditional Arabic script.

General Properties

Code Point	U+16EC9
Version Added	17.0
Name	Beria Erfe Small Letter Ngay
Block	Beria Erfe
General Category	Lowercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	𖻉
HTML Hex Encoding	𖻉
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x96 0xBB 0x89
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD81B 0xDEC9
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00016EC9
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud81b\udec9

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	"𖺮" U+16EAE Beria Erfe Capital Letter Ngay
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"𖺮" U+16EAE Beria Erfe Capital Letter Ngay
Uppercase Code Point	"𖺮" U+16EAE Beria Erfe Capital Letter Ngay
Titlecase Code Point	"𖺮" U+16EAE Beria Erfe Capital Letter Ngay
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