U+1681C "𖠜" Bamum Letter Phase-A Gheuaerae Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𖠜

U+1681C "𖠜" Bamum Letter Phase-A Gheuaerae is a historical script character from the Bamum syllabary, which was developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries by King Ibrahim Njoya of the Bamum Kingdom in present-day Cameroon. This specific letter represents a syllable sound in the Phase A version of the script, which is the first and most complex of the four evolutionary stages of the Bamum writing system. As part of the Bamum Unicode block, the Gheuaerae character is used for encoding texts that preserve the linguistic and cultural heritage of the Bamum people, though the script is no longer in common everyday use. Its inclusion in the Unicode Standard allows for digital preservation and academic study of this unique African writing tradition.

General Properties

Code Point U+1681C
Version Added 6.0
Name Bamum Letter Phase-A Gheuaerae
Block Bamum Supplement
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 𖠜
HTML Hex Encoding 𖠜
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x96 0xA0 0x9C
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD81A 0xDC1C
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0001681C
C/C++/Java Escape \ud81a\udc1c

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