U+1E8AB "𞢫" Mende Kikakui Syllable M071 Gboo Unicode Character

U+1E8AB "𞢫" Mende Kikakui Syllable M071 Gboo is a glyph from the Mende Kikakui script, which was historically used by the Mende people of Sierra Leone and Liberia to write their language. This particular syllable represents the sound "gboo," and it belongs to a phonetic writing system created in the early 20th century for transcribing Mende tonal speech, where each character corresponds to a specific syllable with an inherent tone. The Mende Kikakui script, now documented in the Unicode Standard, helps preserve the linguistic and cultural heritage of the Mende community, though its use has largely been replaced by the Latin alphabet in modern contexts.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1E8AB
Version Added	7.0
Name	Mende Kikakui Syllable M071 Gboo
Block	Mende Kikakui
General Category	Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Right To Left

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	𞢫
HTML Hex Encoding	𞢫
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x9E 0xA2 0xAB
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD83A 0xDCAB
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001E8AB
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud83a\udcab

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