U+1E8AA "𞢪" Mende Kikakui Syllable M107 Gbe Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1E8AA "𞢪" Mende Kikakui Syllable M107 Gbe is a specific glyph from the Mende Kikakui script, which was historically used to write the Mende language of Sierra Leone. This character represents a syllable, designated as M107, with the phonetic value "gbe," and it belongs to a syllabary devised in the early 20th century by Mohamed Turay and others to transcribe Mende. The inclusion of this character in the Unicode Standard ensures that digital text can accurately preserve and transmit this unique writing system, supporting cultural heritage and linguistic documentation for the Mende people.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1E8AA |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Mende Kikakui Syllable M107 Gbe |
| Block | Mende Kikakui |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Right To Left |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𞢪 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𞢪 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x9E 0xA2 0xAA |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83A 0xDCAA |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001E8AA |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83a\udcaa |
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 |