U+1683F "ð– ¿" Bamum Letter Phase-A Ntap Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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U+1683F "ð– ¿" Bamum Letter Phase-A Ntap is a glyph from the Bamum script, an original writing system developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in the Bamum Kingdom, located in present day Cameroon. This particular character, known as Ntap, belongs to the initial phase of the script's evolution, often referred to as Phase A, which was created by King Njoya and his advisors around 1896. The Bamum script underwent several revisions, moving from a pictographic system to a more phonetic syllabary, and Phase A represents the earliest stage with a large number of characters, each representing a word or concept. Ntap, like other Phase A letters, reflects the culture and language of the Bamum people, and it is encoded in the Unicode Standard under the Supplementary Multilingual Plane to ensure digital preservation and accessibility for modern communication and research.

General Properties

Code Point U+1683F
Version Added 6.0
Name Bamum Letter Phase-A Ntap
Block Bamum Supplement
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 𖠿
HTML Hex Encoding 𖠿
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x96 0xA0 0xBF
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD81A 0xDC3F
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0001683F
C/C++/Java Escape \ud81a\udc3f

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Alphabetic
Script Bamum
Script Extensions Bamum
Indic Syllabic Category Other
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Rotated
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter