U+16844 "ð–¡„" Bamum Letter Phase-A Unknown Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+16844 "ð–¡„" Bamum Letter Phase-A Unknown is a part of the Bamum script, a writing system historically used for the Bamum language in present-day Cameroon, and specifically belongs to the "Phase-A" stage, an early development phase of the script that was later reformed and simplified. This particular character is labeled as "unknown" because its exact phonetic value or original meaning has not been identified by scholars, likely due to the fragmentary or undeciphered nature of some early Bamum inscriptions. It is encoded in the Supplementary Multilingual Plane and represents one of many characters that capture the experimental and evolving nature of the script before it was standardized.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+16844 |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Bamum Letter Phase-A Unknown |
| Block | Bamum Supplement |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𖡄 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𖡄 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x96 0xA1 0x84 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81A 0xDC44 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00016844 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81a\udc44 |