U+1E8A7 "𞢧" Mende Kikakui Syllable M056 Gba Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1E8A7 "𞢧" Mende Kikakui Syllable M056 Gba is a specific glyph belonging to the Mende Kikakui script, which was historically used to write the Mende language in Sierra Leone. This particular syllable represents the sound "gba" and is part of a syllabary invented in the early 20th century by Mohamed Turay and others as an indigenous writing system. The character is encoded in the Unicode Standard under the Mende Kikakui block, which includes over two hundred distinct syllabic signs and logograms, preserving a unique cultural and linguistic heritage.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1E8A7 |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Mende Kikakui Syllable M056 Gba |
| Block | Mende Kikakui |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Right To Left |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𞢧 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𞢧 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x9E 0xA2 0xA7 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83A 0xDCA7 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001E8A7 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83a\udca7 |
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 |