U+16ECD "" Beria Erfe Small Letter Erigo Tamura Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+16ECD "" Beria Erfe Small Letter Erigo Tamura is a specific glyph from the Beria Erfe script, which is used to write the Beria language (also known as Zaghawa) spoken primarily in parts of Chad and Sudan. This particular character represents the small letter form of the syllable "erigo tamura," contributing to the script's unique alphabet that was developed by Sheikh Barkhad Abugidein in the 1950s to revitalize and systematically record the Beria language. As part of the Beria Erfe block in Unicode, this character helps preserve and digitally support an endangered writing system, enabling its use in modern communication and digital text processing.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+16ECD |
| Version Added | 17.0 |
| Name | Beria Erfe Small Letter Erigo Tamura |
| Block | Beria Erfe |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𖻍 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𖻍 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x96 0xBB 0x8D |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81B 0xDECD |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00016ECD |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81b\udecd |
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 | "" U+16EB2 Beria Erfe Capital Letter Erigo Tamura |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "" U+16EB2 Beria Erfe Capital Letter Erigo Tamura |
| Uppercase Code Point | "" U+16EB2 Beria Erfe Capital Letter Erigo Tamura |
| Titlecase Code Point | "" U+16EB2 Beria Erfe Capital Letter Erigo Tamura |
| 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 |