U+1E854 "𞡔" Mende Kikakui Syllable M032 Ya Unicode Character

U+1E854 "𞡔" Mende Kikakui Syllable M032 Ya is part of the Mende Kikakui script, which was created in the early 20th century by Mohamed Turay and other scholars of the Mende people in Sierra Leone. This specific character represents a syllabic sound used in the Mende language, a Mande language spoken by over a million people. The "Ya" syllable is typically written with a distinctive curvilinear design, reflecting the script's unique visual style that departs from Latin or Arabic influences. This character belongs to the Unicode range U+1E800 to U+1E8DF, an effort to preserve and digitally encode the script for modern computing use.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1E854
Version Added	7.0
Name	Mende Kikakui Syllable M032 Ya
Block	Mende Kikakui
General Category	Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Right To Left

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	𞡔
HTML Hex Encoding	𞡔
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x9E 0xA1 0x94
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD83A 0xDC54
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001E854
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud83a\udc54

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