U+1E82D "ðž " Mende Kikakui Syllable M178 En Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ðž
U+1E82D "ðž " Mende Kikakui Syllable M178 En is a specific glyph from the Mende Kikakui script, a writing system invented in the early 20th century for the Mende language of Sierra Leone. This character represents a syllable pronounced as "en", and it belongs to the extensive syllabary of over 190 distinct signs used to write the Mende language. The script was developed by Mohamed Turay and later standardized, with the character encoded in Unicode's Supplementary Multilingual Plane to support digital preservation and use of this indigenous African writing system.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1E82D |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Mende Kikakui Syllable M178 En |
| Block | Mende Kikakui |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Right To Left |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𞠭 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𞠭 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x9E 0xA0 0xAD |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83A 0xDC2D |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001E82D |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83a\udc2d |
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 |