U+1E85A "ðž¡š" Mende Kikakui Syllable M034 Fi Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1E85A "ðž¡š" Mende Kikakui Syllable M034 Fi is a specific symbol from the Mende Kikakui script, which was historically used to write the Mende language of Sierra Leone. This particular character represents the syllable “fi” and is part of a syllabary invented in the early 20th century by Kisimi Kamara, a Mende scholar who created the script to transcribe his native language. The character is encoded in the Unicode Standard under the Mende Kikakui block, allowing for its digital representation and preservation in modern computing systems.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1E85A |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Mende Kikakui Syllable M034 Fi |
| Block | Mende Kikakui |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Right To Left |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𞡚 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𞡚 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x9E 0xA1 0x9A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83A 0xDC5A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001E85A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83a\udc5a |
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 |