U+1683D "ð– ½" Bamum Letter Phase-A Map Pieet Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ð– ½
U+1683D "ð– ½" Bamum Letter Phase-A Map Pieet is a glyph from the Bamum script, which was developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in what is now Cameroon by King Njoya of the Bamum people to write the Bamum language. This specific character belongs to the "Phase-A" stage of the script's evolution, representing an early set of syllabic and ideographic symbols, and its name "Map Pieet" likely corresponds to a phonetic value or a specific word in the language. Part of the Unicode Supplementary Multilingual Plane, this character helps preserve the rich cultural and linguistic heritage of the Bamum civilization, enabling digital representation and study of an endangered writing system.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1683D |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Bamum Letter Phase-A Map Pieet |
| Block | Bamum Supplement |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𖠽 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𖠽 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x96 0xA0 0xBD |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81A 0xDC3D |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001683D |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81a\udc3d |