U+1685E "ð–¡ž" Bamum Letter Phase-B Yeurae Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ð–¡ž
U+1685E "ð–¡ž" Bamum Letter Phase-B Yeurae is a specific glyph from the Bamum script, which was developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries by King Njoya of the Bamum people in present-day Cameroon. This character represents a syllable or phoneme known as "Yeurae" and belongs to Phase B, one of several stages in the script's evolution from a logographic system to a more simplified syllabary. Today, it is encoded in the Supplementary Multilingual Plane of Unicode to support the digital preservation and modern usage of the Bamum language, aiding in the revitalization of this West African writing system.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1685E |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Bamum Letter Phase-B Yeurae |
| Block | Bamum Supplement |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𖡞 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𖡞 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x96 0xA1 0x9E |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81A 0xDC5E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001685E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81a\udc5e |