U+1E888 "𞢈" Mende Kikakui Syllable M167 Guan Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𞢈
U+1E888 "𞢈" Mende Kikakui Syllable M167 Guan is part of the Mende Kikakui script, a writing system created in the early 20th century for the Mende language of Sierra Leone and neighboring regions in West Africa. This specific syllable represents the sound "guan" and belongs to a syllabary that was invented in the 1920s by Mohamed Turay and later popularized by Kisimi Kamara, ultimately becoming a key element of cultural identity and literacy for the Mende people.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1E888 |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Mende Kikakui Syllable M167 Guan |
| Block | Mende Kikakui |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Right To Left |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𞢈 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𞢈 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x9E 0xA2 0x88 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83A 0xDC88 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001E888 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83a\udc88 |
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 |