What 𖺊 means
It belongs to the Obɛri Ɔkaimɛ church’s script.
The Obɛri Ɔkaimɛ (“Church freely given”) church, an Ibibio Christian community in southeastern Nigeria, developed Medefaidrin around 1927. Members describe it as a “spirit language”; tradition says founder Bishop Ukpong received it by divine inspiration, and secretary Jakeld Udofia wrote it down. It served worship and community life; it also helped shield members from colonial officials, though secrecy brought greater persecution. A 1947 account prints the numeral chart. In 2010, researchers documented prayer and school uses. Its base twenty system differs from neighboring Ibibio’s mainly five-based one. Researchers suggested Bible English may have contributed because “score” means twenty, but could not prove it.
Part of the collection
Who writes 𖺊
Loading…
Don't confuse it with
1
Questions people ask
1Why does 𖺊 show as a box on some devices?
Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.
More like this
10
How to type or find 𖺊
- Search it as
- Medefaidrin numeral · base 20 · barred 7
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𖺊\16E8ACodes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.