U+1E921 "𞤡" Adlam Capital Letter Sha Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𞤡
U+1E921 "𞤡" Adlam Capital Letter Sha is part of the Adlam script, a writing system created in the 1980s for the Fulani language (Fulfulde) by two Guinean brothers, Ibrahima and Abdoulaye Barry. This specific character represents the capital form of the consonant "sha," which corresponds to the sound /ʃ/ (like the "sh" in "ship"). Adlam is written from right to left and is used primarily in West African countries such as Guinea, Nigeria, and Liberia. The uppercase variant, like other Adlam capitals, is typically employed for proper nouns or the beginning of sentences. The script gained official Unicode inclusion in 2016 with version 9.0, helping to preserve and promote Fulani literacy and cultural identity in digital contexts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1E921 |
| Version Added | 9.0 |
| Name | Adlam Capital Letter Sha |
| Block | Adlam |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Right To Left |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𞤡 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𞤡 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x9E 0xA4 0xA1 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83A 0xDD21 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001E921 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83a\udd21 |
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 | "𞥃" U+1E943 Adlam Small Letter Sha |
| Lowercase Code Point | "𞥃" U+1E943 Adlam Small Letter Sha |
| Simple Case Folding | "𞥃" U+1E943 Adlam Small Letter Sha |
| Case Folding | "𞥃" U+1E943 Adlam Small Letter Sha |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "𞥃" U+1E943 Adlam Small Letter Sha |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "𞥃" U+1E943 Adlam Small Letter Sha |
| 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 |