U+1E900 Adlam Capital Letter Alif
U+1E900 was added in Unicode version 9.0 in 2016. It belongs to the block
This character is a Uppercase Letter and is mainly used in the Adlam script. Its lowercase variant is
The glyph is not a composition. It has no designated width in East Asian texts. In bidirectional text it is written from right to left. When changing direction it is not mirrored. The word that U+1E900 forms with similar adjacent characters prevents a line break inside it.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
The Adlam script is a script used to write Fulani. The name Adlam is an acronym derived from the first four letters of the alphabet (A, D, L, M), standing for Alkule Dandayษe Leรฑol Mulugol (๐ค๐คค๐คณ๐คต๐คค๐คซ ๐ค๐คข๐คฒ๐คฃ๐คข๐คด๐คฏ๐คซ ๐ค๐คซ๐คป๐คฎ๐คค ๐ค๐คต๐คค๐คต๐คบ๐คฎ๐คค), which means "the alphabet that protects the peoples from vanishing". It is one of many indigenous scripts developed for specific languages in West Africa.
Adlam is supported in Google's Android and Chrome operating systems. There are also Android apps to send SMS in Adlam and to learn the alphabet. On computers running Microsoft Windows, the Adlam script was natively supported beginning with Windows 10 version 1903, which was released in May 2019. On macOS, the Adlam script was natively supported beginning with Ventura in 2022.
Representations
System | Representation |
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Nยบ | 125184 |
UTF-8 | F0 9E A4 80 |
UTF-16 | D8 3A DD 00 |
UTF-32 | 00 01 E9 00 |
URL-Quoted | %F0%9E%A4%80 |
HTML hex reference | 𞤀 |
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | รฐลพยคโฌ |
Related Characters
Elsewhere
Complete Record
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