U+16E53 "𖹓" Medefaidrin Capital Letter Yu Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𖹓
U+16E53 "𖹓" Medefaidrin Capital Letter Yu is a letter from the Medefaidrin script, which was created in the early 20th century by the Ibibio people of Nigeria as a writing system for their language. This particular character represents the sound "yu" and is the capitalized form of its lowercase counterpart U+16E73. The Medefaidrin alphabet, also known as Obɛri Ọkaimɛ, consists of both uppercase and lowercase letters, and this character is part of the Unicode block U+16E50 to U+16E7F, which was added to the Unicode Standard in 2018 to preserve and digitally encode this indigenous African script.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+16E53 |
| Version Added | 11.0 |
| Name | Medefaidrin Capital Letter Yu |
| Block | Medefaidrin |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𖹓 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𖹓 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x96 0xB9 0x93 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81B 0xDE53 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00016E53 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81b\ude53 |
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 | "ð–¹³" U+16E73 Medefaidrin Small Letter Yu |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ð–¹³" U+16E73 Medefaidrin Small Letter Yu |
| Simple Case Folding | "ð–¹³" U+16E73 Medefaidrin Small Letter Yu |
| Case Folding | "ð–¹³" U+16E73 Medefaidrin Small Letter Yu |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ð–¹³" U+16E73 Medefaidrin Small Letter Yu |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ð–¹³" U+16E73 Medefaidrin Small Letter Yu |
| 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 |