U+16E65 "𖹥" Medefaidrin Small Letter Z Unicode Character

U+16E65 "𖹥" Medefaidrin Small Letter Z is part of the Medefaidrin script, which was created in the early 20th century by the Obɛri ɔ́kaimɛ church in Nigeria as a sacred writing system for the Medefaidrin language, also known as Oberi Okaime. This lowercase letter represents the phoneme /z/ and belongs to a block of characters added to Unicode in version 7.0 in 2014, enabling digital preservation and scholarship of this unique script. The character typically appears as a distinct abstract symbol with rounded and angular strokes, reflecting the script's invented visual style designed for religious and community use.

General Properties

Code Point	U+16E65
Version Added	11.0
Name	Medefaidrin Small Letter Z
Block	Medefaidrin
General Category	Lowercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	𖹥
HTML Hex Encoding	𖹥
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x96 0xB9 0xA5
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD81B 0xDE65
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00016E65
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud81b\ude65

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	"𖹅" U+16E45 Medefaidrin Capital Letter Z
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"𖹅" U+16E45 Medefaidrin Capital Letter Z
Uppercase Code Point	"𖹅" U+16E45 Medefaidrin Capital Letter Z
Titlecase Code Point	"𖹅" U+16E45 Medefaidrin Capital Letter Z
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