U+1E8BC "𞢼" Mende Kikakui Syllable M173 Vee Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𞢼
U+1E8BC "𞢼" Mende Kikakui Syllable M173 Vee is part of the Mende Kikakui script, which was developed in the early 20th century by Mohamed Turay and others in Sierra Leone specifically for writing the Mende language. This particular character represents a syllable consisting of the consonant sound "V" combined with a specific vowel, though the exact phonetic value of syllable number M173 in the Mende Kikakui syllabary may vary or follow a pattern similar to other "V" syllables in the script. The character belongs to the Unicode block for Mende Kikakui, which was added to the standard in 2014 with version 7.0 to support the preservation and digital use of this indigenous West African writing system.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1E8BC |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Mende Kikakui Syllable M173 Vee |
| Block | Mende Kikakui |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Right To Left |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𞢼 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𞢼 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x9E 0xA2 0xBC |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83A 0xDCBC |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001E8BC |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83a\udcbc |
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 |