U+1E848 "𞡈" Mende Kikakui Syllable M055 Te Unicode Character

U+1E848 "𞡈" Mende Kikakui Syllable M055 Te is part of the Mende Kikakui script, a writing system created in the early 20th century for the Mende language spoken primarily in Sierra Leone. This specific character represents the syllable "te" and belongs to a syllabary devised by Mohamed Turay and later refined by Kisimi Kamara. The Mende Kikakui script is written from right to left and was historically used for correspondence, religious texts, and record keeping, though it has largely been replaced by the Latin alphabet in modern times. U+1E848 is encoded in the Supplementary Multilingual Plane and is included in Unicode version 7.0, released in 2014, to help preserve and digitally represent this unique African script.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1E848
Version Added	7.0
Name	Mende Kikakui Syllable M055 Te
Block	Mende Kikakui
General Category	Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Right To Left

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	𞡈
HTML Hex Encoding	𞡈
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x9E 0xA1 0x88
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD83A 0xDC48
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001E848
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud83a\udc48

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