U+16E46 "饢箚" Medefaidrin Capital Letter Kp Unicode Character
U+16E46 "饢箚" Medefaidrin Capital Letter Kp is part of the Medefaidrin script, a constructed writing system created in the early 20th century for the Medefaidrin language spoken by the Oromo people of Nigeria. This specific character represents the capital form of the letter that corresponds to the sound "kp," a voiceless labial-velar plosive common in many West African languages. The character is encoded in Unicode's Supplementary Multilingual Plane, specifically within the Medefaidrin block (U+16E40 to U+16E9F), which was added to the Unicode Standard in version 11.0 released in 2018. Its inclusion ensures that the Medefaidrin language can be digitally represented and preserved, supporting cultural heritage and linguistic documentation efforts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+16E46 |
| Version Added | 11.0 |
| Name | Medefaidrin Capital Letter Kp |
| Block | Medefaidrin |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𖹆 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𖹆 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x96 0xB9 0x86 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81B 0xDE46 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00016E46 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81b\ude46 |
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 | "饢功" U+16E66 Medefaidrin Small Letter Kp |
| Lowercase Code Point | "饢功" U+16E66 Medefaidrin Small Letter Kp |
| Simple Case Folding | "饢功" U+16E66 Medefaidrin Small Letter Kp |
| Case Folding | "饢功" U+16E66 Medefaidrin Small Letter Kp |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "饢功" U+16E66 Medefaidrin Small Letter Kp |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "饢功" U+16E66 Medefaidrin Small Letter Kp |
| 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 |