U+16E77 "𖹷" Medefaidrin Small Letter Ny Unicode Character

U+16E77 "𖹷" Medefaidrin Small Letter Ny is a specific glyph used in the Medefaidrin script, an alphabet created in the early 20th century for the Medefaidrin language, also known as Obɛri Ɔkaimɛ, spoken by a small Christian community in southeastern Nigeria. This character represents the consonant sound "ny" in the language's orthography, which was devised by the religious leader Ntiense and his followers. As part of the Medefaidrin block in Unicode, this letter is used in written texts and liturgical materials, helping to preserve and digitally encode the unique script for modern computing and historical documentation.

General Properties

Code Point	U+16E77
Version Added	11.0
Name	Medefaidrin Small Letter Ny
Block	Medefaidrin
General Category	Lowercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right
Alias	MEDEFAIDRIN SMALL LETTER NG (correction)

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	𖹷
HTML Hex Encoding	𖹷
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x96 0xB9 0xB7
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD81B 0xDE77
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00016E77
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud81b\ude77

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	"𖹗" U+16E57 Medefaidrin Capital Letter Ny
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"𖹗" U+16E57 Medefaidrin Capital Letter Ny
Uppercase Code Point	"𖹗" U+16E57 Medefaidrin Capital Letter Ny
Titlecase Code Point	"𖹗" U+16E57 Medefaidrin Capital Letter Ny
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