U+1E8B2 "𞢲" Mende Kikakui Syllable M119 Nde Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𞢲
U+1E8B2 "𞢲" Mende Kikakui Syllable M119 Nde is a specific glyph from the Mende Kikakui script, which was historically used to write the Mende language of Sierra Leone. This syllable, representing the sound "nde," is part of a standardized set of characters encoded in the Unicode Standard to preserve and facilitate digital use of this African syllabary. The Kikakui script, developed in the early 20th century by Mohamed Turay, is a syllabary composed of over 190 characters, and U+1E8B2 corresponds to its particular syllabic grouping.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1E8B2 |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Mende Kikakui Syllable M119 Nde |
| Block | Mende Kikakui |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Right To Left |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𞢲 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𞢲 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x9E 0xA2 0xB2 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83A 0xDCB2 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001E8B2 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83a\udcb2 |
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 |