U+16E43 "𖹃" Medefaidrin Capital Letter W Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𖹃
U+16E43 "𖹃" Medefaidrin Capital Letter W is part of the Medefaidrin script, an alphabet created in the early 20th century for the Medefaidrin language spoken by the Ibibio people of Nigeria. This character represents the capitalized form of the letter corresponding to the sound /w/ in the language, and it is used in written texts alongside its lowercase counterpart (U+16E63) as part of a writing system designed to support the religious and cultural identity of the community. The Medefaidrin script was added to the Unicode Standard in 2018 as part of version 11.0, ensuring that this unique alphabet can be digitally preserved and used in modern computing.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+16E43 |
| Version Added | 11.0 |
| Name | Medefaidrin Capital Letter W |
| Block | Medefaidrin |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𖹃 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𖹃 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x96 0xB9 0x83 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81B 0xDE43 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00016E43 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81b\ude43 |
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 | Alphabetic |
| Uppercase | Yes |
| Simple Lowercase Code Point | "ð–¹£" U+16E63 Medefaidrin Small Letter W |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ð–¹£" U+16E63 Medefaidrin Small Letter W |
| Simple Case Folding | "ð–¹£" U+16E63 Medefaidrin Small Letter W |
| Case Folding | "ð–¹£" U+16E63 Medefaidrin Small Letter W |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ð–¹£" U+16E63 Medefaidrin Small Letter W |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ð–¹£" U+16E63 Medefaidrin Small Letter W |
| Script | Medefaidrin |
| Script Extensions | Medefaidrin |
| 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 | Upper |