U+1E887 "𞢇" Mende Kikakui Syllable M166 Guei Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𞢇
U+1E887 "𞢇" Mende Kikakui Syllable M166 Guei is a specific glyph in the Mende Kikakui script, an indigenous writing system developed in the early 20th century for the Mende language spoken in Sierra Leone. This character represents the syllable "guei" and belongs to a syllabary created by Mohamed Turay, later revised by Kisimi Kamara. The Mende Kikakui script includes hundreds of syllabograms, and this particular character is part of the script's modern encoding in the Unicode Standard, enabling its digital representation and preservation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1E887 |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Mende Kikakui Syllable M166 Guei |
| Block | Mende Kikakui |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Right To Left |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𞢇 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𞢇 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x9E 0xA2 0x87 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83A 0xDC87 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001E887 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83a\udc87 |
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 |