U+1E827 "ðž §" Mende Kikakui Syllable M165 Oo Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1E827 "ðž §" Mende Kikakui Syllable M165 Oo is part of the Mende Kikakui script, a writing system created in the early twentieth century for the Mende language spoken in Sierra Leone, West Africa. This specific character represents a syllable pronounced as "oo" and is among many syllabic glyphs in the Kikakui script, which is categorized under Unicode’s Supplementary Multilingual Plane. The script itself was developed by Kisimi Kamara as an indigenous alternative to the Latin alphabet and the Arabic script, and it features a unique visual design where consonant and vowel components combine into single syllables. The inclusion of this character in Unicode helps preserve the digital representation of Mende language and culture.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1E827 |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Mende Kikakui Syllable M165 Oo |
| Block | Mende Kikakui |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Right To Left |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𞠧 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𞠧 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x9E 0xA0 0xA7 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83A 0xDC27 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001E827 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83a\udc27 |
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 |