U+1E82A "ðž ª" Mende Kikakui Syllable M131 In Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ðž ª
U+1E82A "ðž ª" Mende Kikakui Syllable M131 In is a specific glyph from the Mende Kikakui script, an alphasyllabary historically used for writing the Mende language in Sierra Leone, West Africa. This character represents the syllable "in" and is part of a larger syllabary system that was devised in the early 20th century by scribes like Kisimi Kamara to transcribe the Mende language phonetically. The Mende Kikakui block in Unicode encodes these characters to support the preservation and digital representation of the script, which is integral to Mende cultural heritage and linguistic identity.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1E82A |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Mende Kikakui Syllable M131 In |
| Block | Mende Kikakui |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Right To Left |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𞠪 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𞠪 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x9E 0xA0 0xAA |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83A 0xDC2A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001E82A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83a\udc2a |
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 |