U+1E926 "𞤦" Adlam Small Letter Ba Unicode Character

U+1E926 "𞤦" Adlam Small Letter Ba is a character from the Adlam alphabet, a modern script invented in the late 1980s for writing the Fulani language, widely spoken across West Africa. This specific character represents the consonant sound "ba" and is part of a writing system designed to be easy to learn and write, with its letters inspired by Arabic and other existing scripts. The Adlam script was created by brothers Ibrahima and Abdoulaye Barry and has gained official support in Unicode to help preserve and promote literacy in Fulani, with "𞤦" being one of its foundational characters used in everyday writing and education.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1E926
Version Added	9.0
Name	Adlam Small Letter Ba
Block	Adlam
General Category	Lowercase 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 0xA6
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD83A 0xDD26
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001E926
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud83a\udd26

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
Lowercase	Yes
Simple Uppercase Code Point	"𞤄" U+1E904 Adlam Capital Letter Ba
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"𞤄" U+1E904 Adlam Capital Letter Ba
Uppercase Code Point	"𞤄" U+1E904 Adlam Capital Letter Ba
Titlecase Code Point	"𞤄" U+1E904 Adlam Capital Letter Ba
Cased	Yes
Changes When Casemapped	Yes
Changes When Titlecased	Yes
Changes When Uppercased	Yes
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	Lower