U+16E4B "饢箣" Medefaidrin Capital Letter I Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
饢箣
U+16E4B "饢箣" Medefaidrin Capital Letter I is a character from the Medefaidrin script, an alphabet created in the early 20th century by the prophet Obassi E. E. Nsibidi of the Arochukwu region in southeastern Nigeria as a sacred writing system for the Medefaidrin language, also known as Oberi Okaime. This specific character represents the capital form of the letter "I" within the script's case sensitive orthography, where lower case letters are derived from their capital counterparts. It belongs to the Medefaidrin Unicode block, which was added to the Unicode Standard in version 11.0 released in June 2018, enabling digital representation and preservation of this unique African writing system.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+16E4B |
| Version Added | 11.0 |
| Name | Medefaidrin Capital Letter I |
| Block | Medefaidrin |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𖹋 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𖹋 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x96 0xB9 0x8B |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81B 0xDE4B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00016E4B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81b\ude4b |
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 | "饢公" U+16E6B Medefaidrin Small Letter I |
| Lowercase Code Point | "饢公" U+16E6B Medefaidrin Small Letter I |
| Simple Case Folding | "饢公" U+16E6B Medefaidrin Small Letter I |
| Case Folding | "饢公" U+16E6B Medefaidrin Small Letter I |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "饢公" U+16E6B Medefaidrin Small Letter I |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "饢公" U+16E6B Medefaidrin Small Letter I |
| 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 |