U+1E8AF "𞢯" Mende Kikakui Syllable M129 Nda Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𞢯
U+1E8AF "𞢯" Mende Kikakui Syllable M129 Nda is a character from the Mende Kikakui script, which was historically used to write the Mende language of Sierra Leone. This particular syllabic symbol represents the phonetic value "nda" and is part of a larger set of over 190 syllabic signs in the script, invented in the early 20th century by Kisimi Kamara. The character is encoded in the Supplementary Multilingual Plane (SMP) of Unicode, specifically within the Mende Kikakui block (U+1E800 to U+1E8DF). Its inclusion in Unicode helps preserve and digitally support the Mende Kikakui writing system, ensuring that Mende speakers and scholars can use it for linguistic, cultural, and historical documentation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1E8AF |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Mende Kikakui Syllable M129 Nda |
| Block | Mende Kikakui |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Right To Left |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𞢯 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𞢯 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x9E 0xA2 0xAF |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83A 0xDCAF |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001E8AF |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83a\udcaf |
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 |