U+1E87F "ðž¡¿" Mende Kikakui Syllable M127 Nggua Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1E87F "ðž¡¿" Mende Kikakui Syllable M127 Nggua is a glyph from the Mende Kikakui script, which was developed in the early 20th century by Mohamed Turay and others to write the Mende language of Sierra Leone. This specific syllabic character represents the sound "nggua" and belongs to the set of over 190 syllables that make up the script, combining consonant and vowel sounds into distinct symbols. The Mende Kikakui script was historically used for correspondence and record keeping before the Latin alphabet became more prevalent, and it was added to the Unicode Standard in version 7.0, ensuring its digital preservation for linguistic and cultural study.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1E87F |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Mende Kikakui Syllable M127 Nggua |
| Block | Mende Kikakui |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Right To Left |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𞡿 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𞡿 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x9E 0xA1 0xBF |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83A 0xDC7F |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001E87F |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83a\udc7f |
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 |