U+16800 "ð– €" Bamum Letter Phase-A Ngkue Mfon Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ð– €
U+16800 "ð– €" Bamum Letter Phase-A Ngkue Mfon is a symbol from the Bamum script, which was developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in what is now Cameroon, originally created by King Njoya of the Bamum people. This specific letter belongs to Phase A, the earliest stage of the script's evolution, and its name "Ngkue Mfon" translates to "king's boundary" or a related royal concept in the Bamum language. The character is part of a rich writing system that sought to record the history, governance, and culture of the Bamum kingdom, and it is encoded in the Unicode standard to preserve and enable digital representation of this historical script.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+16800 |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Bamum Letter Phase-A Ngkue Mfon |
| Block | Bamum Supplement |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𖠀 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𖠀 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x96 0xA0 0x80 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81A 0xDC00 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00016800 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81a\udc00 |