U+10D57 "" Garay Capital Letter Wa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
Source: Browser Default
U+10D57 "" Garay Capital Letter Wa is a part of the Garay script, a writing system devised by the Senegalese inventor Assane Faye in the 1960s for transcribing the Wolof language and other languages of West Africa. This character represents the syllable or sound "wa" in the Garay alphabet, and it was added to the Unicode Standard in 2024 as part of version 16.0, filling a critical need for digital representation of this historically significant script, which features a unique left to right horizontal orientation with cursive like letterforms.
General Properties
Code Point
U+10D57
Name
Garay Capital Letter Wa
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
𐵗
HTML Hex Encoding
𐵗
UTF-8 Encoding
0xF0 0x90 0xB5 0x97
UTF-16 Encoding
0xD803 0xDD57
UTF-32 Encoding
0x00010D57
C/C++/Java Escape
\ud803\udd57
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
Simple Lowercase Code Point
Lowercase Code Point
Simple Case Folding
Case Folding
NFKC Casefold
NFKC Simple Casefold
Script Extensions
Garay