U+16813 "ð– “" Bamum Letter Phase-A Keukeutnda Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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U+16813 "ð– “" Bamum Letter Phase-A Keukeutnda is a specific glyph from the Bamum script, an indigenous writing system created in the late 19th and early 20th centuries by King Njoya and his court in the Bamum Kingdom, located in present-day Cameroon. This particular character belongs to Phase A, the earliest and most pictographic stage of the script's evolution, which originally contained hundreds of logographic symbols. The name "Keukeutnda" refers to one of the syllables or words that this character was designed to represent, reflecting the language's phonetic and semantic structure. Today, the Bamum script holds cultural and historical significance, and its characters, including U+16813, are encoded in Unicode to support digital preservation and study of this unique African writing tradition.

General Properties

Code Point U+16813
Version Added 6.0
Name Bamum Letter Phase-A Keukeutnda
Block Bamum Supplement
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 𖠓
HTML Hex Encoding 𖠓
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x96 0xA0 0x93
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD81A 0xDC13
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00016813
C/C++/Java Escape \ud81a\udc13

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