U+1682E "ð– ®" Bamum Letter Phase-A Tuaep Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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U+1682E "ð– ®" Bamum Letter Phase-A Tuaep is part of the Bamum script used to write the Bamum language of Cameroon, representing a syllable or phonetic sound from the script's Phase A stage, which was an early simplification of the original pictographic writing system developed by King Ibrahim Njoya in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. This character, specifically termed "Tuaep," belongs to a historic inventory of over 500 symbols that underwent systematic revisions through multiple phases, with Phase A being the first major reduction. Though Phase A glyphs like this one are largely archaic today, replaced by later standardized phases, they remain of significant interest to paleographers, linguists, and digital typographers preserving West African cultural heritage.

General Properties

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

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 𖠮
HTML Hex Encoding 𖠮
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x96 0xA0 0xAE
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD81A 0xDC2E
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0001682E
C/C++/Java Escape \ud81a\udc2e

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