U+1E900 "𞤀" Adlam Capital Letter Alif Unicode Character

U+1E900 "𞤀" Adlam Capital Letter Alif is a letter from the Adlam script, which was created in the 1980s by two Guinean brothers, Ibrahima and Abdoulaye Barry, to write the Fulani (Fula) language. This character represents the capital form of the first letter of the Adlam alphabet, equivalent to the sound of the vowel "a" or the glottal stop in many contexts. It was added to the Unicode Standard in 2018 as part of the Adlam block, aiding in the digital representation and preservation of the script used by millions of people across West Africa.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1E900
Version Added	9.0
Name	Adlam Capital Letter Alif
Block	Adlam
General Category	Uppercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Right To Left

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	𞤀
HTML Hex Encoding	𞤀
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x9E 0xA4 0x80
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD83A 0xDD00
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001E900
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud83a\udd00

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFD Quick Check	Yes
NFKC Quick Check	Yes
NFKD Quick Check	Yes
Numeric Type	None
Numeric Value	NaN
Joining Type	Dual Joining
Line Break	Alphabetic
Uppercase	Yes
Simple Lowercase Code Point	"𞤢" U+1E922 Adlam Small Letter Alif
Lowercase Code Point	"𞤢" U+1E922 Adlam Small Letter Alif
Simple Case Folding	"𞤢" U+1E922 Adlam Small Letter Alif
Case Folding	"𞤢" U+1E922 Adlam Small Letter Alif
Cased	Yes
Changes When Casefolded	Yes
Changes When Casemapped	Yes
Changes When Lowercased	Yes
Changes When NFKC Casefolded	Yes
NFKC Casefold	"𞤢" U+1E922 Adlam Small Letter Alif
NFKC Simple Casefold	"𞤢" U+1E922 Adlam Small Letter Alif
Script	Adlam
Script Extensions	Adlam
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