U+1E809 "ðž ‰" Mende Kikakui Syllable M005 Wa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ðž ‰
U+1E809 "ðž ‰" Mende Kikakui Syllable M005 Wa is a symbol from the Mende Kikakui script, which was developed in the early 20th century for writing the Mende language spoken in Sierra Leone. This specific syllable represents the sound "wa" and belongs to a syllabary created by Kisimi Kamara, designed as an alternative to the Latin alphabet for transcribing Mende. The character is part of the Unicode block for Mende Kikakui, encoded to support digital preservation and use of this indigenous writing system.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1E809 |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Mende Kikakui Syllable M005 Wa |
| Block | Mende Kikakui |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Right To Left |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𞠉 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𞠉 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x9E 0xA0 0x89 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83A 0xDC09 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001E809 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83a\udc09 |
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 |