U+1E83A "ðž º" Mende Kikakui Syllable M073 Le Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1E83A "ðž º" Mende Kikakui Syllable M073 Le is a script character used in the Mende Kikakui writing system, which was historically employed to write the Mende language of Sierra Leone in West Africa. It represents the syllable "le" and belongs to a syllabary that originated in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, designed to visually resemble Islamic geometric patterns while encoding distinct sounds. This character is part of a larger set of Unicode Mende Kikakui symbols added to the standard to preserve and digitally encode the endangered script for modern use.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1E83A |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Mende Kikakui Syllable M073 Le |
| Block | Mende Kikakui |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Right To Left |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𞠺 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𞠺 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x9E 0xA0 0xBA |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83A 0xDC3A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001E83A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83a\udc3a |
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 |