U+1E81C "𞠜" Mende Kikakui Syllable M011 Ba Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𞠜
U+1E81C "𞠜" Mende Kikakui Syllable M011 Ba is a specific glyph from the Mende Kikakui script, which was historically used to write the Mende language spoken in Sierra Leone, West Africa. This particular character represents the syllable "ba" and belongs to a syllabary invented in the early 20th century by Mohamed Turay and later revised by other scholars to encode the phonetic sounds of Mende. The Mende Kikakui script, now included in the Unicode Standard to support digital preservation and linguistic study, features a distinctive geometric and cursive appearance, with each syllable character like this one carrying a specific vowel or consonant-vowel combination.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1E81C |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Mende Kikakui Syllable M011 Ba |
| Block | Mende Kikakui |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Right To Left |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𞠜 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𞠜 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x9E 0xA0 0x9C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83A 0xDC1C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001E81C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83a\udc1c |
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 |