U+1E810 "𞠐" Mende Kikakui Syllable M143 Wei Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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U+1E810 "𞠐" Mende Kikakui Syllable M143 Wei is a script symbol used in the Mende language, spoken primarily in Sierra Leone, and belongs to the Mende Kikakui syllabary developed in the early 20th century by Mohamed Turay and others as a writing system for the Mende people. This particular syllable represents the sound "wei" and is part of a larger set of characters that encode the phonetic inventory of the language, facilitating written communication and cultural preservation. The Mende Kikakui script is notable for its unique syllabic structure, where each character corresponds to a distinct syllable rather than individual letters, and it is encoded in the Unicode standard to support digital representation and interoperability across modern computing platforms.

General Properties

Code Point U+1E810
Version Added 7.0
Name Mende Kikakui Syllable M143 Wei
Block Mende Kikakui
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Right To Left

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 𞠐
HTML Hex Encoding 𞠐
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x9E 0xA0 0x90
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD83A 0xDC10
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0001E810
C/C++/Java Escape \ud83a\udc10

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