U+1E900 "𞤀" Adlam Capital Letter Alif Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
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U+1E900 "𞤀" Adlam Capital Letter Alif is a letter from the Adlam script, which was created in the 1980s by two Guinean brothers, Ibrahima and Abdoulaye Barry, to write the Fulani (Fula) language. This character represents the capital form of the first letter of the Adlam alphabet, equivalent to the sound of the vowel "a" or the glottal stop in many contexts. It was added to the Unicode Standard in 2018 as part of the Adlam block, aiding in the digital representation and preservation of the script used by millions of people across West Africa.
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General Properties
Code Point
U+1E900
Name
Adlam Capital Letter Alif
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
𞤀
HTML Hex Encoding
𞤀
UTF-8 Encoding
0xF0 0x9E 0xA4 0x80
UTF-16 Encoding
0xD83A 0xDD00
UTF-32 Encoding
0x0001E900
C/C++/Java Escape
\ud83a\udd00
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
Simple Lowercase Code Point
Lowercase Code Point
Simple Case Folding
Case Folding
NFKC Casefold
NFKC Simple Casefold
Script Extensions
Adlam