U+16841 "𖡁" Bamum Letter Phase-A Nyit Mongkeuaeq Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𖡁
U+16841 "𖡁" Bamum Letter Phase-A Nyit Mongkeuaeq is part of the Bamum script, which was developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries by King Ibrahim Njoya of the Bamum people in present-day Cameroon. This specific character represents a syllable or phonetic sound from the script's Phase A, the first stage of the writing system's evolution, which was later simplified through subsequent phases. The name "Nyit Mongkeuaeq" indicates its linguistic function within the Bamum language, and the character is encoded in the Unicode standard to preserve and enable digital representation of this historically significant African script.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+16841 |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Bamum Letter Phase-A Nyit Mongkeuaeq |
| Block | Bamum Supplement |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𖡁 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𖡁 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x96 0xA1 0x81 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81A 0xDC41 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00016841 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81a\udc41 |