U+1E87D "𞡽" Mende Kikakui Syllable M120 Nggo Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𞡽
U+1E87D "𞡽" Mende Kikakui Syllable M120 Nggo is a specific glyph from the Mende Kikakui script, a writing system historically used to transcribe the Mende language of Sierra Leone. Developed in the early 20th century by Mohammed Turay and his associates, this syllabary represents phonetic syllables with distinct characters, and this particular symbol encodes the syllable "nggo". It is part of the Supplementary Multilingual Plane in Unicode, included to preserve and digitally support the endangered Mende script for linguistic study, cultural heritage, and modern textual communication.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1E87D |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Mende Kikakui Syllable M120 Nggo |
| Block | Mende Kikakui |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Right To Left |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𞡽 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𞡽 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x9E 0xA1 0xBD |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83A 0xDC7D |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001E87D |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83a\udc7d |
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 |