U+1E904 "𞤄" Adlam Capital Letter Ba Unicode Character

U+1E904 "𞤄" Adlam Capital Letter Ba is part of the Adlam script, a writing system created in the 1980s by the brothers Abdoulaye and Ibrahima Barry for the Fulani language (Fulfulde). This uppercase letter represents the sound /b/ and is used primarily in educational and digital contexts to write the Fulani language across West Africa. Its inclusion in Unicode supports the revival and modernization of Adlam, which has gained popularity in print and on mobile devices, helping to preserve the linguistic heritage of the Fulani people.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1E904
Version Added	9.0
Name	Adlam Capital Letter Ba
Block	Adlam
General Category	Uppercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Right To Left

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	𞤄
HTML Hex Encoding	𞤄
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x9E 0xA4 0x84
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD83A 0xDD04
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001E904
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud83a\udd04

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	"𞤦" U+1E926 Adlam Small Letter Ba
Lowercase Code Point	"𞤦" U+1E926 Adlam Small Letter Ba
Simple Case Folding	"𞤦" U+1E926 Adlam Small Letter Ba
Case Folding	"𞤦" U+1E926 Adlam Small Letter Ba
Cased	Yes
Changes When Casefolded	Yes
Changes When Casemapped	Yes
Changes When Lowercased	Yes
Changes When NFKC Casefolded	Yes
NFKC Casefold	"𞤦" U+1E926 Adlam Small Letter Ba
NFKC Simple Casefold	"𞤦" U+1E926 Adlam Small Letter Ba
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