U+1683E "ð– ¾" Bamum Letter Phase-A Shirae Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1683E "ð– ¾" Bamum Letter Phase-A Shirae is part of the Bamum script used historically in the Cameroon region to write the Bamum language, specifically representing a letter from the script's initial Phase A, which was developed by King Ibrahim Njoya in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. This phase consisted of a complex pictographic and ideographic system with hundreds of characters, and "Shirae" refers to a distinct glyph within that early writing system. The character itself is encoded in the Supplementary Multilingual Plane, making it accessible for digital use in modern text processing, though it remains specialized due to the script's limited modern usage.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1683E |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Bamum Letter Phase-A Shirae |
| Block | Bamum Supplement |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𖠾 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𖠾 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x96 0xA0 0xBE |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81A 0xDC3E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001683E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81a\udc3e |