U+1E829 "ðž ©" Mende Kikakui Syllable M137 Ei Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1E829 "ðž ©" Mende Kikakui Syllable M137 Ei is a glyph used in the Mende Kikakui script, which was historically employed to write the Mende language of Sierra Leone. This particular syllable represents the sound "ei" and is part of a larger syllabary that was created in the early 20th century by the Mende chief and inventor Kisimi Kamara to improve literacy among his people. The character is encoded in the Supplementary Multilingual Plane of Unicode, ensuring its preservation and use in modern digital text for cultural and linguistic purposes.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1E829 |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Mende Kikakui Syllable M137 Ei |
| Block | Mende Kikakui |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Right To Left |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𞠩 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𞠩 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x9E 0xA0 0xA9 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83A 0xDC29 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001E829 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83a\udc29 |
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 |