U+1E8B1 "𞢱" Mende Kikakui Syllable M191 Ndee Unicode Character

U+1E8B1 "𞢱" Mende Kikakui Syllable M191 Ndee is part of the Mende Kikakui script, which was developed in the early 20th century by Mohamed Turay and others to write the Mende language spoken primarily in Sierra Leone. This specific syllable symbol represents the phonetic sound "ndee" and is one of the many syllabic characters used in the Kikakui writing system, which operates as a syllabary with over 150 distinct characters. The script was historically used for correspondence, religious texts, and administrative records, though it has since been largely supplanted by the Latin alphabet in modern Mende writing.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1E8B1
Version Added	7.0
Name	Mende Kikakui Syllable M191 Ndee
Block	Mende Kikakui
General Category	Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Right To Left

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	𞢱
HTML Hex Encoding	𞢱
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x9E 0xA2 0xB1
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD83A 0xDCB1
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001E8B1
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud83a\udcb1

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