U+1E857 "ðž¡—" Mende Kikakui Syllable M080 Ye Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1E857 "ðž¡—" Mende Kikakui Syllable M080 Ye is a part of the Mende Kikakui script, a writing system developed in the early 20th century for the Mende language of Sierra Leone. This syllabic character represents the syllable "ye" and belongs to a large set of symbols used to write Mende, which is a Niger-Congo language. The Mende Kikakui script, created by Mohamed Turay and later refined by Kisimi Kamara, is written from right to left and encodes hundreds of distinct syllables, with this specific character being one of its building blocks for capturing the sounds of the language.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1E857 |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Mende Kikakui Syllable M080 Ye |
| Block | Mende Kikakui |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Right To Left |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𞡗 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𞡗 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x9E 0xA1 0x97 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83A 0xDC57 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001E857 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83a\udc57 |
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 |