U+16E4D "𖹍" Medefaidrin Capital Letter A Unicode Character

U+16E4D "𖹍" Medefaidrin Capital Letter A is a glyph from the Medefaidrin script, an artificial alphabet created in the 1930s for the Medefaidrin language, a constructed liturgical language used by the Oberi Okaime Christian movement in Nigeria. This character serves as the uppercase form of the first letter in the Medefaidrin alphabet, which was designed with a unique visual style distinct from Latin or other historical scripts. It falls within the Medefaidrin Unicode block (U+16E40 to U+16E9F), added in version 11.0 of the Unicode Standard in 2018, enabling digital representation and preservation of this culturally specific writing system.

General Properties

Code Point	U+16E4D
Version Added	11.0
Name	Medefaidrin Capital Letter A
Block	Medefaidrin
General Category	Uppercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	𖹍
HTML Hex Encoding	𖹍
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x96 0xB9 0x8D
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD81B 0xDE4D
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00016E4D
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud81b\ude4d

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	"𖹭" U+16E6D Medefaidrin Small Letter A
Lowercase Code Point	"𖹭" U+16E6D Medefaidrin Small Letter A
Simple Case Folding	"𖹭" U+16E6D Medefaidrin Small Letter A
Case Folding	"𖹭" U+16E6D Medefaidrin Small Letter A
Cased	Yes
Changes When Casefolded	Yes
Changes When Casemapped	Yes
Changes When Lowercased	Yes
Changes When NFKC Casefolded	Yes
NFKC Casefold	"𖹭" U+16E6D Medefaidrin Small Letter A
NFKC Simple Casefold	"𖹭" U+16E6D Medefaidrin Small Letter A
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