U+1684D "𖡍" Bamum Letter Phase-A Nshiee Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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U+1684D "𖡍" Bamum Letter Phase-A Nshiee is a grapheme from the Bamum script, specifically belonging to the Phase-A stage of the Bamum writing system, which was developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in the Bamum Kingdom of present-day Cameroon. This character represents the syllable or sound "nshiee" in the Bamum language, a Niger-Congo language of the Grassfields branch. The Bamum script underwent multiple evolutionary phases, and Phase-A represents an early stage before subsequent simplifications by King Njoya and his scribes. As part of the Bamum Supplement Unicode block, this letter supports the digital preservation and modern use of the script, which is important for cultural heritage and linguistic documentation among the Bamum people.

General Properties

Code Point U+1684D
Version Added 6.0
Name Bamum Letter Phase-A Nshiee
Block Bamum Supplement
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 𖡍
HTML Hex Encoding 𖡍
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x96 0xA1 0x8D
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD81A 0xDC4D
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0001684D
C/C++/Java Escape \ud81a\udc4d

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