U+1E918 "𞤘" Adlam Capital Letter Ga Unicode Character

U+1E918 "𞤘" Adlam Capital Letter Ga is part of the Adlam alphabet, a script created in the 1980s by the brothers Abdoulaye and Ibrahima Barry for writing the Fulani language (Fulfulde), primarily used in Guinea and other West African regions. This specific character represents the sound "ga" and, as a capital letter, is used in sentence-initial positions or for proper nouns following the script's bicameral design where each letter has both an uppercase and lowercase form. The Adlam script gained official Unicode encoding in version 9.0 in 2016, aiding digital preservation and literacy for the Fulani community.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1E918
Version Added	9.0
Name	Adlam Capital Letter Ga
Block	Adlam
General Category	Uppercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Right To Left

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	𞤘
HTML Hex Encoding	𞤘
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x9E 0xA4 0x98
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD83A 0xDD18
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001E918
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud83a\udd18

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	"𞤺" U+1E93A Adlam Small Letter Ga
Lowercase Code Point	"𞤺" U+1E93A Adlam Small Letter Ga
Simple Case Folding	"𞤺" U+1E93A Adlam Small Letter Ga
Case Folding	"𞤺" U+1E93A Adlam Small Letter Ga
Cased	Yes
Changes When Casefolded	Yes
Changes When Casemapped	Yes
Changes When Lowercased	Yes
Changes When NFKC Casefolded	Yes
NFKC Casefold	"𞤺" U+1E93A Adlam Small Letter Ga
NFKC Simple Casefold	"𞤺" U+1E93A Adlam Small Letter Ga
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