U+1684C "𖡌" Bamum Letter Phase-A Paam Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𖡌
U+1684C "𖡌" Bamum Letter Phase-A Paam is a specific glyph from the Bamum script, an indigenous writing system developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries for the Bamum language spoken in what is now Cameroon. This character corresponds to the Phase A version of the script, which was the earliest of several script reforms initiated by King Ibrahim Njoya, and it represents the sound "paam" or a similar phonetic value. As part of the Bamum Supplement block in Unicode, this character helps preserve the historical and cultural heritage of the Bamum people by enabling digital representation of their traditional writing system.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1684C |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Bamum Letter Phase-A Paam |
| Block | Bamum Supplement |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𖡌 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𖡌 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x96 0xA1 0x8C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81A 0xDC4C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001684C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81a\udc4c |