U+1E939 "𞤹" Adlam Small Letter Qaaf Unicode Character

U+1E939 "𞤹" Adlam Small Letter Qaaf is a specific glyph in the Adlam script, which was created in the 1980s for writing the Fulani language (also known as Fula) spoken primarily in West Africa. This character represents the letter “q” in the Adlam alphabet and is used to denote a voiceless uvular plosive sound, a phoneme that occurs in loanwords and certain native Fulani words. As a small letter form, it plays a key role in the script’s orthography, which was designed to be written from right to left and has gained official status in countries like Guinea and Senegal.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1E939
Version Added	9.0
Name	Adlam Small Letter Qaaf
Block	Adlam
General Category	Lowercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Right To Left

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	𞤹
HTML Hex Encoding	𞤹
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x9E 0xA4 0xB9
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD83A 0xDD39
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001E939
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud83a\udd39

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	"𞤗" U+1E917 Adlam Capital Letter Qaaf
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"𞤗" U+1E917 Adlam Capital Letter Qaaf
Uppercase Code Point	"𞤗" U+1E917 Adlam Capital Letter Qaaf
Titlecase Code Point	"𞤗" U+1E917 Adlam Capital Letter Qaaf
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