U+1683A "ð– º" Bamum Letter Phase-A Rom Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ð– º
U+1683A "ð– º" Bamum Letter Phase-A Rom is a character from the ancient Bamum script, which was used to write the Bamum language of the Bamum people in present-day Cameroon. This specific character represents a syllable or sound within the script's initial "Phase-A" stage, which was developed in the late 19th century by King Ibrahim Njoya as part of a larger writing system that evolved through several phases of simplification. It serves as a vital link to the cultural and linguistic heritage of the Bamum kingdom, preserving a unique form of African writing that is now supported in modern digital text encoding.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1683A |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Bamum Letter Phase-A Rom |
| Block | Bamum Supplement |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𖠺 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𖠺 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x96 0xA0 0xBA |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81A 0xDC3A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001683A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81a\udc3a |