U+16E6E "𖹮" Medefaidrin Small Letter J Unicode Character

U+16E6E "𖹮" Medefaidrin Small Letter J is part of the Medefaidrin script, a constructed writing system created in the early 20th century for the Medefaidrin language used by the Oberi Okaime Christian community in southeastern Nigeria. This character represents the lowercase form of the letter for the /d͡ʒ/ sound, akin to the English "j" in "judge," and is used alongside its uppercase counterpart U+16E5E within the script's alphabetical order. The Medefaidrin block was added to the Unicode Standard in 2021 with version 14.0, ensuring that this unique African script can be digitally preserved and utilized in modern computing environments.

General Properties

Code Point	U+16E6E
Version Added	11.0
Name	Medefaidrin Small Letter J
Block	Medefaidrin
General Category	Lowercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	𖹮
HTML Hex Encoding	𖹮
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x96 0xB9 0xAE
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD81B 0xDE6E
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00016E6E
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud81b\ude6e

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	"𖹎" U+16E4E Medefaidrin Capital Letter J
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"𖹎" U+16E4E Medefaidrin Capital Letter J
Uppercase Code Point	"𖹎" U+16E4E Medefaidrin Capital Letter J
Titlecase Code Point	"𖹎" U+16E4E Medefaidrin Capital Letter J
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