U+1E92F "𞤯" Adlam Small Letter Dha Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𞤯

U+1E92F "𞤯" Adlam Small Letter Dha is a part of the Adlam script, a writing system created in the 1980s for the Fulani (Fulbe) people of West Africa, primarily used to write the Pular and Fulfulde languages. This specific character represents the voiced dental implosive sound, often transcribed as a retroflex or alveolar d with a distinct phonetic quality, and is one of the 28 consonant letters in the Adlam alphabet. Its visual form, characterized by a sweeping curve and a hooked tail, reflects the script’s unique calligraphic style, which was designed to be easily written by hand and typed digitally. The inclusion of this letter in Unicode ensures its digital preservation and supports the growing use of Adlam in education, literature, and online communication across the Fulani diaspora.

General Properties

Code Point U+1E92F
Version Added 9.0
Name Adlam Small Letter Dha
Block Adlam
General Category Lowercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Right To Left

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 𞤯
HTML Hex Encoding 𞤯
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x9E 0xA4 0xAF
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD83A 0xDD2F
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0001E92F
C/C++/Java Escape \ud83a\udd2f

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 "𞤍" U+1E90D Adlam Capital Letter Dha
Simple Titlecase Code Point "𞤍" U+1E90D Adlam Capital Letter Dha
Uppercase Code Point "𞤍" U+1E90D Adlam Capital Letter Dha
Titlecase Code Point "𞤍" U+1E90D Adlam Capital Letter Dha
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