U+1E8A5 "𞢥" Mende Kikakui Syllable M158 Kpo Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𞢥
U+1E8A5 "𞢥" Mende Kikakui Syllable M158 Kpo is part of the Mende Kikakui script, which was historically used to write the Mende language of Sierra Leone and was created in the early 20th century by Mohamed Turay and other scholars. This specific character represents a syllabic unit with the sound "kpo" and belongs to a large syllabary consisting of over 190 distinct symbols, each corresponding to a consonant vowel combination. The Mende Kikakui script is notable for its unique visual style, featuring rounded and angular shapes, and it has been encoded in Unicode to preserve and support digital communication in this endangered writing system.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1E8A5 |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Mende Kikakui Syllable M158 Kpo |
| Block | Mende Kikakui |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Right To Left |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𞢥 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𞢥 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x9E 0xA2 0xA5 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83A 0xDCA5 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001E8A5 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83a\udca5 |
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 |