U+1E917 "𞤗" Adlam Capital Letter Qaaf Unicode Character

U+1E917 "𞤗" Adlam Capital Letter Qaaf is a distinct glyph within the Adlam script, which was created in the 1980s to write the Fulani language spoken across West Africa. This capital letter represents the sound /q/, serving as the uppercase form of its lowercase counterpart, and it is part of a modern alphabet designed to be written from right to left. Its inclusion in Unicode helps preserve and digitally support the Fulani cultural heritage, enabling consistent representation of the script in electronic texts and communications.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1E917
Version Added	9.0
Name	Adlam Capital Letter Qaaf
Block	Adlam
General Category	Uppercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Right To Left

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	𞤗
HTML Hex Encoding	𞤗
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x9E 0xA4 0x97
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD83A 0xDD17
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001E917
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud83a\udd17

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	"𞤹" U+1E939 Adlam Small Letter Qaaf
Lowercase Code Point	"𞤹" U+1E939 Adlam Small Letter Qaaf
Simple Case Folding	"𞤹" U+1E939 Adlam Small Letter Qaaf
Case Folding	"𞤹" U+1E939 Adlam Small Letter Qaaf
Cased	Yes
Changes When Casefolded	Yes
Changes When Casemapped	Yes
Changes When Lowercased	Yes
Changes When NFKC Casefolded	Yes
NFKC Casefold	"𞤹" U+1E939 Adlam Small Letter Qaaf
NFKC Simple Casefold	"𞤹" U+1E939 Adlam Small Letter Qaaf
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