U+1E856 "ðž¡–" Mende Kikakui Syllable M109 Yee Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1E856 "ðž¡–" Mende Kikakui Syllable M109 Yee is a character from the Mende Kikakui script, which was devised in the early 20th century by Kisimi Kamara for writing the Mende language of Sierra Leone. This particular syllable represents the phonetic sound "yee" and is part of a syllabary that consists of over 150 characters, each corresponding to a specific syllable in the Mende language. The script was historically used for personal correspondence and religious texts, but its use has declined with the adoption of Latin-based orthography. The inclusion of "ðž¡–" in Unicode allows for the digital preservation and representation of this unique African writing system.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1E856 |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Mende Kikakui Syllable M109 Yee |
| Block | Mende Kikakui |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Right To Left |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𞡖 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𞡖 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x9E 0xA1 0x96 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83A 0xDC56 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001E856 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83a\udc56 |
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 |