U+1E893 "𞢓" Mende Kikakui Syllable M145 Mbi Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1E893 "𞢓" Mende Kikakui Syllable M145 Mbi is a specific glyph from the Mende Kikakui script, which was historically used to write the Mende language of Sierra Leone in West Africa. This syllabic character represents the sound "mbi" and is part of a larger set of over 190 syllables developed in the early 20th century by the Mende scholar Kisimi Kamara. The script is written from right to left, and this particular character, identified as syllable M145 in the standard notation, reflects the unique phonetic and cultural heritage of the Mende people. The inclusion of such characters in the Unicode standard helps preserve and digitally represent this African writing system for modern use.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1E893 |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Mende Kikakui Syllable M145 Mbi |
| Block | Mende Kikakui |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Right To Left |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𞢓 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𞢓 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x9E 0xA2 0x93 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83A 0xDC93 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001E893 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83a\udc93 |
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 |