U+16ED3 "𖻓" Beria Erfe Small Letter Ay Unicode Character

U+16ED3 "𖻓" Beria Erfe Small Letter Ay is part of the Beria Erfe script, a writing system created for the Beria language spoken by the Zaghawa people in parts of Chad and Sudan. This character represents a specific vowel sound used in the orthography, serving as the small or lowercase form of the letter that corresponds to a phoneme similar to the vowel in English "eye." As a relatively recent addition to Unicode in version 16.0, it supports efforts to digitally preserve and promote the Beria language, enabling written communication and linguistic documentation for a community whose script was only formally encoded in the early 2020s.

General Properties

Code Point	U+16ED3
Version Added	17.0
Name	Beria Erfe Small Letter Ay
Block	Beria Erfe
General Category	Lowercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	𖻓
HTML Hex Encoding	𖻓
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x96 0xBB 0x93
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD81B 0xDED3
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00016ED3
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud81b\uded3

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	"𖺸" U+16EB8 Beria Erfe Capital Letter Ay
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"𖺸" U+16EB8 Beria Erfe Capital Letter Ay
Uppercase Code Point	"𖺸" U+16EB8 Beria Erfe Capital Letter Ay
Titlecase Code Point	"𖺸" U+16EB8 Beria Erfe Capital Letter Ay
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