U+16833 "ð– ³" Bamum Letter Phase-A Ket Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+16833 "ð– ³" Bamum Letter Phase-A Ket is a character from the Bamum script, which was historically used to write the Bamum language of Cameroon. This specific character was part of a newly invented syllabary created by King Ibrahim Njoya in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, undergoing several phases of simplification. Phase-A represents the earliest recorded form of the script, with this letter representing the syllable "ket." It is encoded in the Unicode Standard to preserve and support digital representation of this unique historical writing system.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+16833 |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Bamum Letter Phase-A Ket |
| Block | Bamum Supplement |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𖠳 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𖠳 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x96 0xA0 0xB3 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81A 0xDC33 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00016833 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81a\udc33 |