U+1E874 "ðž¡´" Mende Kikakui Syllable M052 Hen Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1E874 "ðž¡´" Mende Kikakui Syllable M052 Hen is a character from the Mende Kikakui script, which was historically used to write the Mende language, a Mande language spoken primarily in Sierra Leone. This specific syllable, pronounced "hen", represents a phonetic element in the syllabary, contributing to the representation of spoken Mende in written form. The script itself was developed in the early 20th century by Mohamed Turay and others, and its characters, including this syllable, are now encoded in Unicode to support digital preservation and communication for the Mende language.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1E874 |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Mende Kikakui Syllable M052 Hen |
| Block | Mende Kikakui |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Right To Left |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𞡴 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𞡴 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x9E 0xA1 0xB4 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83A 0xDC74 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001E874 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83a\udc74 |
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 |