U+1E808 "ðž ˆ" Mende Kikakui Syllable M004 Wi Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ðž ˆ
U+1E808 "ðž ˆ" Mende Kikakui Syllable M004 Wi is a glyph from the Mende Kikakui script, which was historically used to write the Mende language of Sierra Leone. This specific character represents a syllable pronounced as "wi", forming part of a syllabary invented in the early 20th century by Kisimi Kamara, designed to transcribe the Mende language's phonetic sounds. As a digital text symbol encoded in Unicode's Supplementary Multilingual Plane, it helps preserve and support the digitization of this West African writing system, enabling modern computation and communication in Mende while maintaining cultural heritage.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1E808 |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Mende Kikakui Syllable M004 Wi |
| Block | Mende Kikakui |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Right To Left |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𞠈 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𞠈 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x9E 0xA0 0x88 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83A 0xDC08 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001E808 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83a\udc08 |
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 |
| Script | Mende Kikakui |
| Script Extensions | Mende Kikakui |
| 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 | OLetter |