U+1E88E "𞢎" Mende Kikakui Syllable M050 Pu Unicode Character

U+1E88E "𞢎" Mende Kikakui Syllable M050 Pu is a part of the Mende Kikakui script, which was historically used to write the Mende language of Sierra Leone and was developed in the early 20th century by Mohamed Turay as an indigenous alternative to the Latin alphabet. This specific syllable represents the sound "pu" in the Mende language, belonging to a larger syllabary system that was used for record keeping, correspondence, and religious texts before being largely replaced by the Latin script in modern education. The character is encoded in the Unicode Standard to support digital preservation and research of this unique writing system.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1E88E
Version Added	7.0
Name	Mende Kikakui Syllable M050 Pu
Block	Mende Kikakui
General Category	Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Right To Left

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	𞢎
HTML Hex Encoding	𞢎
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x9E 0xA2 0x8E
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD83A 0xDC8E
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001E88E
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud83a\udc8e

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