U+1E931 "𞤱" Adlam Small Letter Waw Unicode Character

U+1E931 "𞤱" Adlam Small Letter Waw is a character from the Adlam script, which was created in the 1980s for writing the Fulani (Fula) language, spoken across West Africa. This specific letter represents the consonant sound /w/ and is the twenty ninth letter in the Adlam alphabet. As a small letter, it is used within the regular text of written Adlam, complementing its uppercase counterpart to form a complete case system. The addition of this character to the Unicode Standard in 2018 with version 11.0 ensured that the Adlam script could be properly digitized and used in modern computing environments.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1E931
Version Added	9.0
Name	Adlam Small Letter Waw
Block	Adlam
General Category	Lowercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Right To Left

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	𞤱
HTML Hex Encoding	𞤱
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x9E 0xA4 0xB1
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD83A 0xDD31
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001E931
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud83a\udd31

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	"𞤏" U+1E90F Adlam Capital Letter Waw
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"𞤏" U+1E90F Adlam Capital Letter Waw
Uppercase Code Point	"𞤏" U+1E90F Adlam Capital Letter Waw
Titlecase Code Point	"𞤏" U+1E90F Adlam Capital Letter Waw
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