U+1E908 "𞤈" Adlam Capital Letter Ra Unicode Character

U+1E908 "𞤈" Adlam Capital Letter Ra is a character from the Adlam script, which was created in the 1980s to write the Fulani language (also known as Fula or Fulfulde) spoken across West Africa. Representing the "ra" sound, it is the uppercase form of the letter, used in the modern Adlam writing system that was designed by Ibrahima and Abdoulaye Barry to improve literacy among Fulani speakers. This capital letter follows a right-to-left direction like all Adlam script, and it is part of the Unicode block for Adlam, added in 2018 with version 11.0 to support the script's use in digital text and communication.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1E908
Version Added	9.0
Name	Adlam Capital Letter Ra
Block	Adlam
General Category	Uppercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Right To Left

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	𞤈
HTML Hex Encoding	𞤈
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x9E 0xA4 0x88
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD83A 0xDD08
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001E908
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud83a\udd08

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	"𞤪" U+1E92A Adlam Small Letter Ra
Lowercase Code Point	"𞤪" U+1E92A Adlam Small Letter Ra
Simple Case Folding	"𞤪" U+1E92A Adlam Small Letter Ra
Case Folding	"𞤪" U+1E92A Adlam Small Letter Ra
Cased	Yes
Changes When Casefolded	Yes
Changes When Casemapped	Yes
Changes When Lowercased	Yes
Changes When NFKC Casefolded	Yes
NFKC Casefold	"𞤪" U+1E92A Adlam Small Letter Ra
NFKC Simple Casefold	"𞤪" U+1E92A Adlam Small Letter Ra
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