U+1E898 "𞢘" Mende Kikakui Syllable M072 Mbe Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1E898 "𞢘" Mende Kikakui Syllable M072 Mbe is a specific syllable character from the Mende Kikakui script, which was historically used to write the Mende language of Sierra Leone in West Africa. This script was created in the early 20th century by Mohammed Turay and later expanded by Kisimi Kamara, featuring a unique syllabary with hundreds of symbols. The character "Mbe" represents the syllable "mbe" and is part of a writing system that has seen a decline in usage but remains culturally significant for preserving Mende heritage and identity.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1E898 |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Mende Kikakui Syllable M072 Mbe |
| Block | Mende Kikakui |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Right To Left |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𞢘 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𞢘 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x9E 0xA2 0x98 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83A 0xDC98 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001E898 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83a\udc98 |
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 |