U+16E5A "𖹚" Medefaidrin Capital Letter Oe Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𖹚
U+16E5A "𖹚" Medefaidrin Capital Letter Oe is part of the Medefaidrin script, a constructed writing system created in the 1930s for the Medefaidrin language used by the Christian community in southeastern Nigeria. This character represents the uppercase form of the sound "Oe," which is used to write the language's distinctive vowel system. The Medefaidrin script was invented by the religious leader Chief Solomon E. E. Asemota and his followers to facilitate the written expression of their liturgical and literary works. As a capital letter, it functions within the script's alphabetical ordering for titles and proper names, contributing to the preservation and formalization of this unique cultural and linguistic heritage.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+16E5A |
| Version Added | 11.0 |
| Name | Medefaidrin Capital Letter Oe |
| Block | Medefaidrin |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𖹚 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𖹚 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x96 0xB9 0x9A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81B 0xDE5A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00016E5A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81b\ude5a |
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 | "𖹺" U+16E7A Medefaidrin Small Letter Oe |
| Lowercase Code Point | "𖹺" U+16E7A Medefaidrin Small Letter Oe |
| Simple Case Folding | "𖹺" U+16E7A Medefaidrin Small Letter Oe |
| Case Folding | "𖹺" U+16E7A Medefaidrin Small Letter Oe |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "𖹺" U+16E7A Medefaidrin Small Letter Oe |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "𖹺" U+16E7A Medefaidrin Small Letter Oe |
| 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 |