U+16852 "ð–¡’" Bamum Letter Phase-A Vee Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+16852 "ð–¡’" Bamum Letter Phase-A Vee is a glyph from the Bamum scripts, specifically belonging to the Phase A stage of the Bamum syllabary developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in what is now Cameroon. This script was created by King Ibrahim Njoya of the Bamum people to write the Bamum language, and Phase A represents the earliest form of the writing system, featuring a large set of pictographic and ideographic characters. The Vee character, like others in this phase, was later simplified in subsequent script reforms, but it stands as a historical artifact of the cultural and linguistic innovation of the Bamum kingdom, now encoded in the Unicode Standard for digital preservation and scholarly use.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+16852 |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Bamum Letter Phase-A Vee |
| Block | Bamum Supplement |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𖡒 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𖡒 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x96 0xA1 0x92 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81A 0xDC52 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00016852 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81a\udc52 |