U+16859 "ð–¡™" Bamum Letter Phase-B Siee Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+16859 "ð–¡™" Bamum Letter Phase-B Siee is a glyph from the Bamum script, which was developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in present-day Cameroon by King Njoya and his advisors for writing the Bamum language. This specific letter belongs to Phase B of the script's evolution, representing a refined stage of the writing system that simplified earlier pictorial forms into more abstract syllabic characters. The letter "Siee" is a syllabogram that corresponds to a particular sound in the language, and it is part of the larger Unicode block for Bamum, which encompasses letters from multiple phases of the script's development to preserve this unique African writing tradition for digital use.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+16859 |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Bamum Letter Phase-B Siee |
| Block | Bamum Supplement |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𖡙 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𖡙 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x96 0xA1 0x99 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81A 0xDC59 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00016859 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81a\udc59 |