U+1E897 "𞢗" Mende Kikakui Syllable M188 Mbee Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𞢗
U+1E897 "𞢗" Mende Kikakui Syllable M188 Mbee is a symbol from the Mende Kikakui script, which was developed in the early 20th century for writing the Mende language of Sierra Leone. This specific character represents a syllabic sound, and its composition includes the base character for "M" combined with a diacritic mark to indicate the vowel "bee." As part of the Mende Kikakui syllabary, invented by Mohamed Turay and later refined by Kisimi Kamara, the character is used in traditional and historical contexts to transcribe the Mende language, though its usage has declined with the adoption of the Latin alphabet.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1E897 |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Mende Kikakui Syllable M188 Mbee |
| Block | Mende Kikakui |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Right To Left |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𞢗 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𞢗 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x9E 0xA2 0x97 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83A 0xDC97 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001E897 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83a\udc97 |
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 |