U+1E86C "𞡬" Mende Kikakui Syllable M096 He Unicode Character

U+1E86C "𞡬" Mende Kikakui Syllable M096 He is part of the Mende Kikakui script, a writing system historically used by the Mende people of Sierra Leone to transcribe the Mende language, particularly for religious and educational purposes. This specific character represents a phonetic syllable in the Mende language, corresponding to the sound "he," and belongs to a larger block of over 140 syllabic glyphs that were developed in the early 20th century by Kisimi Kamara. The script saw significant use in local literacy and correspondence, though it has since been largely replaced by the Latin alphabet in modern contexts.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1E86C
Version Added	7.0
Name	Mende Kikakui Syllable M096 He
Block	Mende Kikakui
General Category	Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Right To Left

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	𞡬
HTML Hex Encoding	𞡬
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x9E 0xA1 0xAC
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD83A 0xDC6C
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001E86C
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud83a\udc6c

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