U+16815 "ð– •" Bamum Letter Phase-A Suu Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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U+16815 "ð– •" Bamum Letter Phase-A Suu is a glyph from the Bamum script, an African writing system developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in the Kingdom of Bamum, located in present-day Cameroon. This specific character, designated as "Suu" in Phase A of the script's evolution, represents a syllabic or phonetic unit within the 1,600 plus character set that King Njoya and his scribes created and refined through several stages. Phase A marks the earliest form of the Bamum script, which originally began as a pictographic and then a logographic system before later phases transitioned into a more simplified syllabary. As part of this historical writing system, the character is encoded in the Supplementary Multilingual Plane of Unicode to digitally preserve and support the cultural and linguistic heritage of the Bamum people.

General Properties

Code Point U+16815
Version Added 6.0
Name Bamum Letter Phase-A Suu
Block Bamum Supplement
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 𖠕
HTML Hex Encoding 𖠕
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x96 0xA0 0x95
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD81A 0xDC15
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00016815
C/C++/Java Escape \ud81a\udc15

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