U+16814 "ð– ”" Bamum Letter Phase-A Nkindi Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+16814 "ð– ”" Bamum Letter Phase-A Nkindi is a glyph from the Bamum script, which was developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in the kingdom of Bamum, located in present day Cameroon. This specific letter, part of the script's initial "Phase A" set of characters, represents the consonant sound "n" followed by a vowel sound, and it was used in the writing system created by King Njoya to transcribe the Bamum language. The character is encoded in the Supplementary Multilingual Plane, reflecting the effort to digitally preserve and support this historically significant African script, which underwent several phases of simplification before being replaced by the Latin alphabet for most modern uses.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+16814 |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Bamum Letter Phase-A Nkindi |
| Block | Bamum Supplement |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𖠔 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𖠔 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x96 0xA0 0x94 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81A 0xDC14 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00016814 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81a\udc14 |