U+16E5E "𖹞" Medefaidrin Capital Letter Ai Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𖹞
U+16E5E "𖹞" Medefaidrin Capital Letter Ai is a letter from the Medefaidrin script, an artificial writing system created in the early 20th century by the prophet Isaiah Ogu of the Obong-Ikpeshe community in present-day Nigeria. This script was devised for the liturgical language Medefaidrin, which is used by the Church of Christ in Obong-Ikpeshe for religious texts and ceremonies. Representing the phonetic sound “ai,” this capital letter is part of a larger alphabet designed to facilitate literacy and spiritual expression within the community. The character was added to the Unicode Standard in 2021 as part of the Medefaidrin block, ensuring its digital representation and preservation for modern communication and scholarly study.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+16E5E |
| Version Added | 11.0 |
| Name | Medefaidrin Capital Letter Ai |
| Block | Medefaidrin |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𖹞 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𖹞 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x96 0xB9 0x9E |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81B 0xDE5E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00016E5E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81b\ude5e |
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–¹¾" U+16E7E Medefaidrin Small Letter Ai |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ð–¹¾" U+16E7E Medefaidrin Small Letter Ai |
| Simple Case Folding | "ð–¹¾" U+16E7E Medefaidrin Small Letter Ai |
| Case Folding | "ð–¹¾" U+16E7E Medefaidrin Small Letter Ai |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ð–¹¾" U+16E7E Medefaidrin Small Letter Ai |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ð–¹¾" U+16E7E Medefaidrin Small Letter Ai |
| 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 |