U+1E815 "ðž •" Mende Kikakui Syllable M008 Man Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1E815 "ðž •" Mende Kikakui Syllable M008 Man is a symbol from the Mende Kikakui script, which was historically used to write the Mende language in Sierra Leone, West Africa. This specific character represents a syllable in the script, with its phonetic value corresponding to the sound "ma" or a related nasalized variant within the Mende syllabary. The script itself was invented in the late 19th century and later standardized in modern Unicode to preserve this unique writing system for digital use and linguistic study.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1E815 |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Mende Kikakui Syllable M008 Man |
| Block | Mende Kikakui |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Right To Left |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𞠕 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𞠕 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x9E 0xA0 0x95 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83A 0xDC15 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001E815 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83a\udc15 |
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 |