U+1E81E "ðž ž" Mende Kikakui Syllable M150 Bee Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1E81E "ðž ž" Mende Kikakui Syllable M150 Bee is a glyph from the Mende Kikakui script, which was historically used for writing the Mende language spoken in Sierra Leone. This specific character represents the syllable "bee" and belongs to a syllabary invented in the early 20th century by Kisimi Kamara, though the script has largely fallen out of common use, replaced by the Latin alphabet. The character is encoded in the Unicode standard to support digital preservation of this writing system.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1E81E |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Mende Kikakui Syllable M150 Bee |
| Block | Mende Kikakui |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Right To Left |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𞠞 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𞠞 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x9E 0xA0 0x9E |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83A 0xDC1E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001E81E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83a\udc1e |
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 |