U+1E8C3 "𞣃" Mende Kikakui Syllable M098 Nyen Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𞣃
U+1E8C3 "𞣃" Mende Kikakui Syllable M098 Nyen is a glyph from the Mende Kikakui script, which was historically used to write the Mende language, a Mande language spoken primarily in Sierra Leone by the Mende people. This specific syllable, representing the sound "nyen", belongs to a syllabary that was developed in the early 20th century by Kisimi Kamara and features a distinctive cursive style with characters arranged around a central consonant and vowel notation. It is part of the Unicode block for Mende Kikakui, which was added to the standard in 2018 to preserve and support digital communication for this cultural writing system, aiding in linguistic documentation and modern typing of the Mende language.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1E8C3 |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Mende Kikakui Syllable M098 Nyen |
| Block | Mende Kikakui |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Right To Left |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𞣃 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𞣃 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x9E 0xA3 0x83 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83A 0xDCC3 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001E8C3 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83a\udcc3 |
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 |