U+1E929 "𞤩" Adlam Small Letter Bhe Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𞤩
U+1E929 "𞤩" Adlam Small Letter Bhe is a character from the Adlam script, a writing system created in the 1980s for the Fula language primarily used in West African countries like Guinea, Senegal, and Mali. This specific letter represents the voiced bilabial fricative sound, similar to a "v" or "b" with breathiness, and was developed alongside the larger Adlam alphabet to facilitate literacy and cultural preservation among Fulani communities. As part of the Unicode standard, it enables digital representation and communication of the Fula language on modern devices and platforms, supporting efforts to maintain and promote indigenous writing systems in the digital age.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1E929 |
| Version Added | 9.0 |
| Name | Adlam Small Letter Bhe |
| Block | Adlam |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Right To Left |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𞤩 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𞤩 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x9E 0xA4 0xA9 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83A 0xDD29 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001E929 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83a\udd29 |
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 | "𞤇" U+1E907 Adlam Capital Letter Bhe |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "𞤇" U+1E907 Adlam Capital Letter Bhe |
| Uppercase Code Point | "𞤇" U+1E907 Adlam Capital Letter Bhe |
| Titlecase Code Point | "𞤇" U+1E907 Adlam Capital Letter Bhe |
| 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 |