U+1E81A "ðž š" Mende Kikakui Syllable M189 Muen Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1E81A "ðž š" Mende Kikakui Syllable M189 Muen is a glyph from the Mende Kikakui script, which was historically used to write the Mende language in Sierra Leone and parts of West Africa before its widespread replacement by the Latin alphabet. This specific character represents a syllable pronounced as "muen" and is part of a unique syllabary system originally developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries by the Mende people, with the script featuring over 190 syllabic symbols. Encoded in Unicode version 7.0 in 2014, it is one of many characters that help preserve and digitally represent this culturally significant writing system, allowing for modern typographic use and historical study.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1E81A |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Mende Kikakui Syllable M189 Muen |
| Block | Mende Kikakui |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Right To Left |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𞠚 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𞠚 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x9E 0xA0 0x9A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83A 0xDC1A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001E81A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83a\udc1a |
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 |