U+1E84C "𞡌" Mende Kikakui Syllable M029 Ja Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𞡌
U+1E84C "ðž¡Œ" Mende Kikakui Syllable M029 Ja is a specific glyph from the Mende Kikakui script, a writing system historically used for the Mende language of Sierra Leone. This character represents a syllable pronounced as “ja,” forming part of a larger syllabary invented in the early 20th century by the Mende scholar Kisimi Kamara. The symbol is encoded in the Unicode standard’s Mende Kikakui block, which was introduced to preserve and support digital representation of this indigenous African script. Its inclusion aids in the linguistic and cultural preservation of the Mende people, allowing for accurate text processing and rendering in modern computing environments.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1E84C |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Mende Kikakui Syllable M029 Ja |
| Block | Mende Kikakui |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Right To Left |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𞡌 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𞡌 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x9E 0xA1 0x8C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83A 0xDC4C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001E84C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83a\udc4c |
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 |