U+1E8A2 "𞢢" Mende Kikakui Syllable M044 Kpee Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𞢢
U+1E8A2 "𞢢" Mende Kikakui Syllable M044 Kpee is a glyph from the Mende Kikakui script, a syllabic writing system invented in the early 20th century for the Mende language spoken in Sierra Leone, West Africa. This specific character represents the syllable "kpee" and is part of a collection of over 190 syllabic signs that are used to phonetically transcribe the Mende language, which belongs to the Mande language family. The script was developed by Mohamed Turay and his colleagues as a native alternative to the Latin alphabet, and it is encoded in the Unicode Standard's supplementary multilingual plane to support digital preservation and linguistic documentation of this cultural heritage.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1E8A2 |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Mende Kikakui Syllable M044 Kpee |
| Block | Mende Kikakui |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Right To Left |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𞢢 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𞢢 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x9E 0xA2 0xA2 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83A 0xDCA2 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001E8A2 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83a\udca2 |
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 |