U+1E828 "ðž ¨" Mende Kikakui Syllable M147 O Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ðž ¨
U+1E828 "ðž ¨" Mende Kikakui Syllable M147 O is a part of the Mende Kikakui script, which was historically used to write the Mende language in Sierra Leone and Liberia. This specific character represents a syllable pronounced as "o" and is one of many syllabic symbols in the Kikakui writing system, which was developed in the early twentieth century by Mohamed Turay and other Mende speakers. The script is classified as a syllabary, meaning each character corresponds to a syllable rather than a single consonant or vowel, and it holds cultural and linguistic significance for preserving the Mende language and heritage.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1E828 |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Mende Kikakui Syllable M147 O |
| Block | Mende Kikakui |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Right To Left |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𞠨 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𞠨 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x9E 0xA0 0xA8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83A 0xDC28 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001E828 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83a\udc28 |
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 |