U+1E95E "𞥞" Adlam Initial Exclamation Mark Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𞥞

U+1E95E "𞥞" Adlam Initial Exclamation Mark is a punctuation mark used in the Adlam script, which was created in the 1980s for writing the Fulani language primarily spoken in West Africa, and it appears at the beginning of an exclamatory sentence paired with a mirrored version placed at the end, functioning like an inverted exclamation mark in languages such as Spanish.

General Properties

Code Point U+1E95E
Version Added 9.0
Name Adlam Initial Exclamation Mark
Block Adlam
General Category Other Punctuation
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Right To Left

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 𞥞
HTML Hex Encoding 𞥞
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x9E 0xA5 0x9E
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD83A 0xDD5E
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0001E95E
C/C++/Java Escape \ud83a\udd5e

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Open Punctuation
Script Adlam
Script Extensions Adlam
Indic Syllabic Category Other
Vertical Orientation Rotated
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Other
Sentence Break Other