U+1E872 "𞡲" Mende Kikakui Syllable M130 Han Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𞡲
U+1E872 "𞡲" Mende Kikakui Syllable M130 Han is a single glyph from the Mende Kikakui script, which was historically used by the Mende people of Sierra Leone for writing their language. This specific character represents a syllable in the script, and its name "M130 Han" indicates its position within a standardized syllabary chart, where "Han" corresponds to a particular phonetic value. The Mende Kikakui script itself was created by Mohamed Turay in the early 20th century and is notable for its unique syllabic structure, influenced by both indigenous African writing traditions and the Vai script of Liberia.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1E872 |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Mende Kikakui Syllable M130 Han |
| Block | Mende Kikakui |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Right To Left |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𞡲 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𞡲 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x9E 0xA1 0xB2 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83A 0xDC72 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001E872 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83a\udc72 |
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 |