U+1E8A9 "𞢩" Mende Kikakui Syllable M093 Gbee Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1E8A9 "𞢩" Mende Kikakui Syllable M093 Gbee is a written symbol from the Mende Kikakui script, which was created in the early 20th century specifically for the Mende language spoken in Sierra Leone. This particular character represents the syllable "gbee" as part of the script's syllabic writing system, where each character corresponds to a consonant vowel combination. The Kikakui script was developed by Mohamed Turay and others as an indigenous alternative to the Latin alphabet for transcribing Mende, and it features a unique, rounded visual style distinct from other African writing systems. Today, this character is encoded in Unicode to support the digital preservation and use of the Mende language and its cultural heritage.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1E8A9 |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Mende Kikakui Syllable M093 Gbee |
| Block | Mende Kikakui |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Right To Left |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𞢩 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𞢩 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x9E 0xA2 0xA9 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83A 0xDCA9 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001E8A9 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83a\udca9 |
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 |