U+1E88A "𞢊" Mende Kikakui Syllable M057 Ngon Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𞢊
U+1E88A "𞢊" Mende Kikakui Syllable M057 Ngon is part of the Mende Kikakui script, which was created in the early 20th century by the Mende people of Sierra Leone to write their language, Mende. This specific glyph represents a syllabic unit, pronounced as "ngon," and belongs to a set of over 150 characters in the script, which combines logographic and syllabic elements. Historically developed as an alternative to the Latin alphabet for Mende, the script saw limited use before being largely supplanted, though it remains culturally significant and is encoded in Unicode to preserve its digital representation for linguistic and historical study.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1E88A |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Mende Kikakui Syllable M057 Ngon |
| Block | Mende Kikakui |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Right To Left |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𞢊 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𞢊 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x9E 0xA2 0x8A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83A 0xDC8A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001E88A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83a\udc8a |
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 |