U+1680A "ð– Š" Bamum Letter Phase-A Pon Pa Nji Pipaemba Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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U+1680A "ð– Š" Bamum Letter Phase-A Pon Pa Nji Pipaemba is a historical script character from the Bamum syllabary, which was developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in the Kingdom of Bamum, located in present day Cameroon. This particular character represents a syllable used in the Phase A stage of the script, which was the first and most pictographic version created under the direction of King Njoya. The name Pon Pa Nji Pipaemba likely refers to a specific phonetic or lexical value within the Bamum language. As part of the Bamum Supplement block in Unicode, this character helps preserve and digitally represent an important part of West African cultural and linguistic heritage.

General Properties

Code Point U+1680A
Version Added 6.0
Name Bamum Letter Phase-A Pon Pa Nji Pipaemba
Block Bamum Supplement
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 𖠊
HTML Hex Encoding 𖠊
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x96 0xA0 0x8A
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD81A 0xDC0A
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0001680A
C/C++/Java Escape \ud81a\udc0a

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