U+16E7E "𖹾" Medefaidrin Small Letter Ai Unicode Character

U+16E7E "𖹾" Medefaidrin Small Letter Ai represents a specific lowercase letter in the Medefaidrin alphabet, a script created in the early 20th century for the Medefaidrin language used by the Oberi Okaime community in southeastern Nigeria. This character corresponds to the sound "ai" in the Medefaidrin writing system, which was developed as a sacred script for religious and communication purposes. The small letter "Ai" is part of a private use block included in Unicode 11.0 in 2018, helping to preserve and digitally encode this unique script for modern text processing and cultural documentation.

General Properties

Code Point	U+16E7E
Version Added	11.0
Name	Medefaidrin Small Letter Ai
Block	Medefaidrin
General Category	Lowercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	𖹾
HTML Hex Encoding	𖹾
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x96 0xB9 0xBE
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD81B 0xDE7E
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00016E7E
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud81b\ude7e

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	"𖹞" U+16E5E Medefaidrin Capital Letter Ai
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"𖹞" U+16E5E Medefaidrin Capital Letter Ai
Uppercase Code Point	"𖹞" U+16E5E Medefaidrin Capital Letter Ai
Titlecase Code Point	"𖹞" U+16E5E Medefaidrin Capital Letter Ai
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