U+1682D "ð– ­" Bamum Letter Phase-A Pup Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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U+1682D "ð– ­" Bamum Letter Phase-A Pup 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 belongs to the first phase of the script's evolution, known as Phase-A, which represented an early stage of the script's simplification and standardization by King Njoya and his scribes. The term "Pup" is the syllabic value assigned to this character, representing a phonetic unit used in the Bamum language to record history, religious texts, and legal documents.

General Properties

Code Point U+1682D
Version Added 6.0
Name Bamum Letter Phase-A Pup
Block Bamum Supplement
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 𖠭
HTML Hex Encoding 𖠭
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x96 0xA0 0xAD
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD81A 0xDC2D
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0001682D
C/C++/Java Escape \ud81a\udc2d

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