U+1E8C2 "𞣂" Mende Kikakui Syllable M170 Nyun Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𞣂
U+1E8C2 "𞣂" Mende Kikakui Syllable M170 Nyun is part of the Mende Kikakui script, an African syllabary used to write the Mende language of Sierra Leone. This particular syllable represents the sound "nyun," and it belongs to a writing system developed in the early 20th century by the Mende people, historically employed for religious, legal, and personal correspondence before being largely replaced by the Latin alphabet. The character is encoded in the Unicode Standard to preserve and support the digital representation of this unique indigenous script.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1E8C2 |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Mende Kikakui Syllable M170 Nyun |
| Block | Mende Kikakui |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Right To Left |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𞣂 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𞣂 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x9E 0xA3 0x82 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83A 0xDCC2 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001E8C2 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83a\udcc2 |
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 |