U+1E875 "𞡵" Mende Kikakui Syllable M193 Hon Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𞡵
U+1E875 "𞡵" Mende Kikakui Syllable M193 Hon is a glyph from the Mende Kikakui script, an abugida created in the early 20th century for writing the Mende language of Sierra Leone. This specific character represents a spoken syllable, likely carrying a phonetic value associated with the sound "hon" as indicated by its naming convention within the script's syllabary. It is part of a larger block of characters used to transcribe the unique tonal and consonantal features of Mende, a Niger-Congo language, and its inclusion in Unicode helps preserve and digitally support this historically significant West African writing system.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1E875 |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Mende Kikakui Syllable M193 Hon |
| Block | Mende Kikakui |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Right To Left |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𞡵 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𞡵 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x9E 0xA1 0xB5 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83A 0xDC75 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001E875 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83a\udc75 |
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 |