U+16E73 "𖹳" Medefaidrin Small Letter Yu Unicode Character

U+16E73 "𖹳" Medefaidrin Small Letter Yu is a lowercase letter from the Medefaidrin script, which was created in the 1930s for the Medefaidrin language spoken by members of the Oberi Okaime Christian missionary community in southeastern Nigeria. This specific character represents the sound /ju/ or a similar vowel sound and is part of a modern alphabet designed to transcribe the language, which was developed with a unique set of 44 letters. The Medefaidrin script has been encoded in Unicode to preserve and support digital use of this indigenous writing system, which is used for religious and cultural texts.

General Properties

Code Point	U+16E73
Version Added	11.0
Name	Medefaidrin Small Letter Yu
Block	Medefaidrin
General Category	Lowercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	𖹳
HTML Hex Encoding	𖹳
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x96 0xB9 0xB3
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD81B 0xDE73
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00016E73
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud81b\ude73

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	"𖹓" U+16E53 Medefaidrin Capital Letter Yu
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"𖹓" U+16E53 Medefaidrin Capital Letter Yu
Uppercase Code Point	"𖹓" U+16E53 Medefaidrin Capital Letter Yu
Titlecase Code Point	"𖹓" U+16E53 Medefaidrin Capital Letter Yu
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