U+16E4A "𖹊" Medefaidrin Capital Letter F Unicode Character
U+16E4A "𖹊" Medefaidrin Capital Letter F is part of the Medefaidrin script, a constructed alphabet created in the 1930s for the Medefaidrin language, which is used by the Ibibio people of southeastern Nigeria as a sacred or liturgical script. This specific character represents the capital form of the letter that corresponds to the sound /f/ in the language. The Medefaidrin script was invented to provide a written form for religious and cultural purposes, and its letters feature a unique, elegant design that blends curves and geometric shapes. The "𖹊" character is encoded in the Unicode Medefaidrin block, which supports both uppercase and lowercase letters for this script, enabling digital representation and preservation of this minority writing system.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+16E4A |
| Version Added | 11.0 |
| Name | Medefaidrin Capital Letter F |
| Block | Medefaidrin |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𖹊 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𖹊 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x96 0xB9 0x8A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81B 0xDE4A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00016E4A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81b\ude4a |
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 | "𖹪" U+16E6A Medefaidrin Small Letter F |
| Lowercase Code Point | "𖹪" U+16E6A Medefaidrin Small Letter F |
| Simple Case Folding | "𖹪" U+16E6A Medefaidrin Small Letter F |
| Case Folding | "𖹪" U+16E6A Medefaidrin Small Letter F |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "𖹪" U+16E6A Medefaidrin Small Letter F |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "𖹪" U+16E6A Medefaidrin Small Letter F |
| 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 |