U+16858 "𖡘" Bamum Letter Phase-B Tu Maemgbiee Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𖡘
U+16858 "𖡘" Bamum Letter Phase-B Tu Maemgbiee is a specific glyph from the Bamum script, an indigenous writing system developed in the early 20th century for the Bamum language of Cameroon by Sultan Njoya and his scholars. This character belongs to Phase B, which represents a later stage of the script's evolution after the original pictographic system was simplified and standardized into a syllabary. Tu Maemgbiee corresponds to a particular phonetic syllable or sound used in the Bamum language, contributing to the preservation and documentation of this cultural heritage in modern digital text encoding.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+16858 |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Bamum Letter Phase-B Tu Maemgbiee |
| Block | Bamum Supplement |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𖡘 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𖡘 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x96 0xA1 0x98 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81A 0xDC58 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00016858 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81a\udc58 |