U+16811 "ð– ‘" Bamum Letter Phase-A Seunyam Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+16811 "ð– ‘" Bamum Letter Phase-A Seunyam is a historical script symbol from the Bamum syllabary, which was developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in what is now Cameroon. This specific character represents the syllable or sound "seunyam" and is part of the Phase A stage of the script, the initial iteration of a writing system invented by King Njoya of the Bamum people to record their language. Included in the Unicode Standard to preserve and enable digital representation of this endangered script, the character belongs to the Supplementary Multilingual Plane, reflecting efforts to support the cultural heritage and linguistic documentation of West African writing traditions.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+16811 |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Bamum Letter Phase-A Seunyam |
| Block | Bamum Supplement |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𖠑 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𖠑 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x96 0xA0 0x91 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81A 0xDC11 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00016811 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81a\udc11 |