U+16804 "ð– „" Bamum Letter Phase-A Naa Mfon Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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U+16804 "ð– „" Bamum Letter Phase-A Naa Mfon is a specific glyph from the Bamum script, an indigenous writing system developed in the Bamum Kingdom, now part of modern-day Cameroon. This character represents the sound "naa mfon," which translates to "lord of the land" or "king" in the Bamum language, and it belongs to the Phase-A stage of the script's creation during the early 20th century. Phase-A refers to the initial version of the script invented by King Ibrahim Njoya, who revised it several times to simplify its hundreds of characters for practical use. As part of the Bamum block in the Unicode Standard, this letter helps preserve and digitally represent the historical and cultural heritage of the Bamum people, enabling text processing and data exchange for the language.

General Properties

Code Point U+16804
Version Added 6.0
Name Bamum Letter Phase-A Naa Mfon
Block Bamum Supplement
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 𖠄
HTML Hex Encoding 𖠄
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x96 0xA0 0x84
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD81A 0xDC04
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00016804
C/C++/Java Escape \ud81a\udc04

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 Bamum
Script Extensions Bamum
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