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.