U+1E859 "ðž¡™" Mende Kikakui Syllable M121 Yo Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1E859 "ðž¡™" Mende Kikakui Syllable M121 Yo is a glyph from the Mende Kikakui script, a syllabary created in the early 20th century by Mohamed Turay and based on the indigenous Mende language of Sierra Leone. This specific character represents the syllable "yo" and belongs to a writing system historically used for administrative, educational, and religious purposes among the Mende people. The Mende Kikakui script, which includes over 190 syllabic signs and several diacritics, was eventually supplanted by the Latin alphabet but remains culturally significant. The inclusion of this character in Unicode helps preserve and digitally represent this unique African script for modern communication and historical studies.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1E859 |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Mende Kikakui Syllable M121 Yo |
| Block | Mende Kikakui |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Right To Left |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𞡙 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𞡙 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x9E 0xA1 0x99 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83A 0xDC59 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001E859 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83a\udc59 |
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 |