U+1E873 "𞡳" Mende Kikakui Syllable M087 Hun Unicode Character

U+1E873 "𞡳" Mende Kikakui Syllable M087 Hun is part of the Mende Kikakui script, which was created in the early 20th century by Mohamed Turay and Kisimi Kamara for writing the Mende language spoken in Sierra Leone. This specific character represents a syllable pronounced as "hun" and belongs to a syllabary that uses 194 distinct characters to denote syllables, with each symbol corresponding to a specific consonant-vowel combination. The Mende Kikakui system was historically used for religious texts, correspondence, and record-keeping, and it is now recognized by Unicode to preserve and support this unique African writing tradition.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1E873
Version Added	7.0
Name	Mende Kikakui Syllable M087 Hun
Block	Mende Kikakui
General Category	Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Right To Left

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	𞡳
HTML Hex Encoding	𞡳
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x9E 0xA1 0xB3
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD83A 0xDC73
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001E873
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud83a\udc73

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