U+1E8AE "𞢮" Mende Kikakui Syllable M123 Ndi Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𞢮
U+1E8AE "𞢮" Mende Kikakui Syllable M123 Ndi is a glyph from the Mende Kikakui script, an indigenous writing system used historically by the Mende people of Sierra Leone. This specific syllable represents the sound "ndi" and is classed as an alphasyllabary character, meaning it denotes a consonant-vowel combination rather than a single letter. The script, created in the early 20th century, is encoded in the Unicode Supplementary Multilingual Plane to ensure its preservation and digital representation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1E8AE |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Mende Kikakui Syllable M123 Ndi |
| Block | Mende Kikakui |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Right To Left |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𞢮 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𞢮 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x9E 0xA2 0xAE |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83A 0xDCAE |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001E8AE |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83a\udcae |
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 |