U+16857 "ð–¡—" Bamum Letter Phase-B Nshuet Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ð–¡—
U+16857 "ð–¡—" Bamum Letter Phase-B Nshuet is a glyph from the Bamum scripts, specifically part of the Phase-B syllabary developed in the early 20th century by King Ibrahim Njoya of the Bamum people in present-day Cameroon. This character represents a phonetic syllable used in the Bamum language, which was once written with a complex set of evolving scripts before being largely replaced by the Latin alphabet. It belongs to the Bamum Supplement block in Unicode, encoded to preserve and digitally represent this historical writing system for linguistic and cultural heritage purposes.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+16857 |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Bamum Letter Phase-B Nshuet |
| Block | Bamum Supplement |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𖡗 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𖡗 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x96 0xA1 0x97 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81A 0xDC57 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00016857 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81a\udc57 |