U+1682F "ð– ¯" Bamum Letter Phase-A Luaep Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1682F "ð– ¯" Bamum Letter Phase-A Luaep is a glyph from the Bamum script, a writing system developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in what is now Cameroon by King Ibrahim Njoya and his scribes. This specific character belongs to Phase A of the script's evolution, which was an early stage featuring a large number of pictographic and ideographic signs before the system was later simplified and reformed. The letter "Luaep" represents a specific syllable or sound in the Bamum language, and it was used for communication, record keeping, and cultural expression within the Bamum kingdom. Today, Phase A characters like this one are part of the Unicode Standard to preserve the historical and linguistic heritage of the Bamum people.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1682F |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Bamum Letter Phase-A Luaep |
| Block | Bamum Supplement |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𖠯 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𖠯 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x96 0xA0 0xAF |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81A 0xDC2F |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001682F |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81a\udc2f |