U+1E884 "𞢄" Mende Kikakui Syllable M111 Ga Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1E884 "𞢄" Mende Kikakui Syllable M111 Ga is part of the Mende Kikakui script, a writing system historically used by the Mende people of Sierra Leone in West Africa. This specific character represents a syllabic sound, corresponding to the syllable "ga," and belongs to a larger set of syllabic symbols developed in the early 20th century by Mende scholars, most notably Kisimi Kamara, to transcribe the Mende language. The inclusion of this character in the Unicode Standard helps preserve and digitally support the Kikakui script, ensuring that it can be used in modern computing environments for linguistic, educational, and cultural purposes.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1E884 |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Mende Kikakui Syllable M111 Ga |
| Block | Mende Kikakui |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Right To Left |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𞢄 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𞢄 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x9E 0xA2 0x84 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83A 0xDC84 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001E884 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83a\udc84 |
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 |