U+1E89D "𞢝" Mende Kikakui Syllable M105 Long Mboo Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𞢝
U+1E89D "𞢝" Mende Kikakui Syllable M105 Long Mboo is a specific glyph used in the Mende Kikakui script, which was developed in the early 20th century by Mohamed Turay and others in Sierra Leone to write the Mende language. This character represents a syllable with a prolonged "mboo" sound, distinguished by a lengthening mark that modifies the base vowel duration, and it is encoded in the Supplementary Multilingual Plane of Unicode to support the preservation and digital rendering of this indigenous West African writing system.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1E89D |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Mende Kikakui Syllable M105 Long Mboo |
| Block | Mende Kikakui |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Right To Left |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𞢝 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𞢝 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x9E 0xA2 0x9D |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83A 0xDC9D |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001E89D |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83a\udc9d |
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 |