U+1680B "ð– ‹" Bamum Letter Phase-A Maembgbiee Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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U+1680B "ð– ‹" Bamum Letter Phase-A Maembgbiee is a specific glyph from the Bamum script, an indigenous writing system historically used in the Bamum Kingdom of present-day Cameroon. This character represents a syllable or phoneme in the Phase-A version of the script, which was one of the earliest stages of the Bamum syllabary's development under King Njoya in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The letter Maembgbiee is part of a set of characters that were later simplified or reorganized in subsequent phases of the script's evolution, making it a valuable artifact for studying the history of African writing systems. In digital form, this character is encoded in the Supplementary Multilingual Plane of Unicode, allowing it to be displayed and processed in modern computing environments.

General Properties

Code Point U+1680B
Version Added 6.0
Name Bamum Letter Phase-A Maembgbiee
Block Bamum Supplement
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right
Alias BAMUM LETTER PHASE-A MAEMGBIEE (correction)

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 𖠋
HTML Hex Encoding 𖠋
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x96 0xA0 0x8B
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD81A 0xDC0B
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0001680B
C/C++/Java Escape \ud81a\udc0b

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