U+1E890 "𞢐" Mende Kikakui Syllable M051 Pe Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𞢐
U+1E890 "𞢐" Mende Kikakui Syllable M051 Pe is a glyph representing a syllable in the Mende Kikakui script, which was historically used to write the Mende language of Sierra Leone. This script, developed in the 19th century by Mohammed Turay and later refined by Kisimi Kamara, is a syllabary where each character typically represents a consonant-vowel combination, and the syllable "Pe" specifically denotes the sound /pe/. As part of the Mende Kikakui block in Unicode, this character helps preserve and digitally encode a writing system with deep cultural significance, enabling modern electronic communication and research into Mende linguistics and history.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1E890 |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Mende Kikakui Syllable M051 Pe |
| Block | Mende Kikakui |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Right To Left |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𞢐 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𞢐 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x9E 0xA2 0x90 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83A 0xDC90 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001E890 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83a\udc90 |
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 |