U+16E5F "𖹟" Medefaidrin Capital Letter Y Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𖹟
U+16E5F "𖹟" Medefaidrin Capital Letter Y is a glyph from the Medefaidrin script, an invented writing system created in the early 20th century for the Medefaidrin language, which is used by the Oberi Okaime Christian community in southeastern Nigeria. As the capital form of the letter representing the "y" sound, this character belongs to the Medefaidrin block of the Unicode Standard, which was added in version 7.0 to support the preservation and digital use of this unique African script.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+16E5F |
| Version Added | 11.0 |
| Name | Medefaidrin Capital Letter Y |
| Block | Medefaidrin |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𖹟 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𖹟 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x96 0xB9 0x9F |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81B 0xDE5F |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00016E5F |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81b\ude5f |
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 | "𖹿" U+16E7F Medefaidrin Small Letter Y |
| Lowercase Code Point | "𖹿" U+16E7F Medefaidrin Small Letter Y |
| Simple Case Folding | "𖹿" U+16E7F Medefaidrin Small Letter Y |
| Case Folding | "𖹿" U+16E7F Medefaidrin Small Letter Y |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "𖹿" U+16E7F Medefaidrin Small Letter Y |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "𖹿" U+16E7F Medefaidrin Small Letter Y |
| 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 |