U+16E52 "𖹒" Medefaidrin Capital Letter U Unicode Character

U+16E52 "𖹒" Medefaidrin Capital Letter U is a glyph used to write the Medefaidrin language, a constructed script created in the 1930s by the Ibibio people of southeastern Nigeria for religious and cultural purposes. This capital letter represents the sound "u" and belongs to the Medefaidrin block, which was added to Unicode in version 7.0 (2014). The script features both uppercase and lowercase forms, with "𖹒" being the uppercase counterpart of the lowercase character U+16E72. Its inclusion in Unicode helps preserve and digitally support a unique writing system developed for liturgical texts and community communication.

General Properties

Code Point	U+16E52
Version Added	11.0
Name	Medefaidrin Capital Letter U
Block	Medefaidrin
General Category	Uppercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	𖹒
HTML Hex Encoding	𖹒
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x96 0xB9 0x92
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD81B 0xDE52
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00016E52
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud81b\ude52

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	"𖹲" U+16E72 Medefaidrin Small Letter U
Lowercase Code Point	"𖹲" U+16E72 Medefaidrin Small Letter U
Simple Case Folding	"𖹲" U+16E72 Medefaidrin Small Letter U
Case Folding	"𖹲" U+16E72 Medefaidrin Small Letter U
Cased	Yes
Changes When Casefolded	Yes
Changes When Casemapped	Yes
Changes When Lowercased	Yes
Changes When NFKC Casefolded	Yes
NFKC Casefold	"𖹲" U+16E72 Medefaidrin Small Letter U
NFKC Simple Casefold	"𖹲" U+16E72 Medefaidrin Small Letter U
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