U+1E8A8 "𞢨" Mende Kikakui Syllable M148 Gbu Unicode Character

U+1E8A8 "𞢨" Mende Kikakui Syllable M148 Gbu is a specific glyph from the Mende Kikakui script, an indigenous writing system invented in the early 20th century for the Mende language of Sierra Leone. This particular syllable represents a phonetic sound, likely produced as a voiced bilabial stop followed by a vowel, and it belongs to the script's extensive syllabary of over 190 characters. The Mende Kikakui script, including this character, was historically used for correspondence, record-keeping, and religious texts, though it has largely been supplanted by the Latin alphabet in modern usage. As a part of the Unicode Standard, this character helps preserve and digitally represent the linguistic heritage of the Mende people.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1E8A8
Version Added	7.0
Name	Mende Kikakui Syllable M148 Gbu
Block	Mende Kikakui
General Category	Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Right To Left

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	𞢨
HTML Hex Encoding	𞢨
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x9E 0xA2 0xA8
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD83A 0xDCA8
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001E8A8
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud83a\udca8

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