U+1E81D "𞠝" Mende Kikakui Syllable M012 Bu Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𞠝
U+1E81D "𞠝" Mende Kikakui Syllable M012 Bu is a specific glyph from the Mende Kikakui script, which was created in the early 20th century by the Mende people of Sierra Leone for writing their language. This particular syllable represents the sound "bu" and is part of a larger syllabary that uses a unique combination of diacritic marks and base characters to denote various phonetic values. The character underscores the rich linguistic heritage of the Mende language and the cultural importance of preserving indigenous writing systems in the digital era.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1E81D |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Mende Kikakui Syllable M012 Bu |
| Block | Mende Kikakui |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Right To Left |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𞠝 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𞠝 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x9E 0xA0 0x9D |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83A 0xDC1D |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001E81D |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83a\udc1d |
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 |