U+16E4C "𖹌" Medefaidrin Capital Letter K Unicode Character

U+16E4C "𖹌" Medefaidrin Capital Letter K is part of the Medefaidrin script, an alphabet created in the early 20th century for the Medefaidrin language, which is used by the Oberi Okaime Christian community in southeastern Nigeria. This specific character represents the capital form of the letter corresponding to the sound /k/ in that writing system. It belongs to the Medefaidrin block of Unicode, which was added to the standard in version 11.0 released in 2018, ensuring that this unique script can be digitally preserved and typed across modern platforms for liturgical and everyday communication.

General Properties

Code Point	U+16E4C
Version Added	11.0
Name	Medefaidrin Capital Letter K
Block	Medefaidrin
General Category	Uppercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	𖹌
HTML Hex Encoding	𖹌
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x96 0xB9 0x8C
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD81B 0xDE4C
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00016E4C
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud81b\ude4c

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	"𖹬" U+16E6C Medefaidrin Small Letter K
Lowercase Code Point	"𖹬" U+16E6C Medefaidrin Small Letter K
Simple Case Folding	"𖹬" U+16E6C Medefaidrin Small Letter K
Case Folding	"𖹬" U+16E6C Medefaidrin Small Letter K
Cased	Yes
Changes When Casefolded	Yes
Changes When Casemapped	Yes
Changes When Lowercased	Yes
Changes When NFKC Casefolded	Yes
NFKC Casefold	"𖹬" U+16E6C Medefaidrin Small Letter K
NFKC Simple Casefold	"𖹬" U+16E6C Medefaidrin Small Letter K
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