What 𖺉 means
Each place to the left is worth twenty times the one before it.
Obɛri Ɔkaimɛ (Church freely given) was a Christian community in southeastern Nigeria. Members created Medefaidrin, its sacred language, and a script to write it. Church tradition traces the language to a spiritual revelation in 1927; the church was active in the 1930s. R. F. G. Adams’s 1947 article shows its numerals.
In 2010, linguists documented the endangered language and its texts for preservation and teaching.
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4Questions people ask
1Why does 𖺉 show as a box on Windows?
A font or app without Medefaidrin support is the likely cause. As of September 2026, Microsoft lists Sans Serif Collection for Medefaidrin in Windows 11.
How to type 𖺉
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 16E89, then Alt+X to get 𖺉.
Windows
Win+Rrun charmap for the full table, or use the emoji picker's Ω symbols tab (Win + .).
macOS
Control+Command+SpaceOpen the character viewer and search “medefaidrin digit nine”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 16e89, then Enter or Space.
HTML
𖺉CSS
\16E89Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
𖺉
HTML hex
𖺉
CSS content
content: "\16E89";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%96%BA%89
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On screen
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Code points
2
JS .length
4
UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.