U+16E62 "𖹢" Medefaidrin Small Letter V Unicode Character

U+16E62 "𖹢" Medefaidrin Small Letter V is a letter from the Medefaidrin script, a constructed writing system created in the early 20th century for the Medefaidrin language, which is used by the Oberi Okaime Christian church community in southeastern Nigeria. This specific character represents the consonant sound "v" and is categorized as a lowercase letter in the script’s alphabet. It was encoded in Unicode version 20.0 as part of the Medefaidrin block, which ranges from U+16E40 to U+16E9F, to support digital representation of this religious and liturgical writing system. The Medefaidrin script itself was invented by church leaders and is known for its distinctive, curvilinear shapes that differ significantly from the Latin alphabet.

General Properties

Code Point	U+16E62
Version Added	11.0
Name	Medefaidrin Small Letter V
Block	Medefaidrin
General Category	Lowercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	𖹢
HTML Hex Encoding	𖹢
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x96 0xB9 0xA2
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD81B 0xDE62
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00016E62
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud81b\ude62

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
Lowercase	Yes
Simple Uppercase Code Point	"𖹂" U+16E42 Medefaidrin Capital Letter V
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"𖹂" U+16E42 Medefaidrin Capital Letter V
Uppercase Code Point	"𖹂" U+16E42 Medefaidrin Capital Letter V
Titlecase Code Point	"𖹂" U+16E42 Medefaidrin Capital Letter V
Cased	Yes
Changes When Casemapped	Yes
Changes When Titlecased	Yes
Changes When Uppercased	Yes
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	Lower