U+16863 "ð–¡£" Bamum Letter Phase-B Lam Nshut Nyam Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ð–¡£
U+16863 "ð–¡£" Bamum Letter Phase-B Lam Nshut Nyam is a glyph from the Bamum script, an indigenous writing system developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in what is now Cameroon, specifically created by King Njoya of the Bamum people. This character belongs to Phase B of the script's evolution, which refined and standardized the earlier forms into a syllabary of over 400 characters. The name "Lam Nshut Nyam" translates to a specific phonetic syllable, and the character was historically used to record the Bamum language, including its rich oral traditions, royal decrees, and cultural history. Today, it is part of Unicode's Bamum Supplement block, encoded to preserve this endangered script for digital use and linguistic study.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+16863 |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Bamum Letter Phase-B Lam Nshut Nyam |
| Block | Bamum Supplement |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𖡣 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𖡣 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x96 0xA1 0xA3 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81A 0xDC63 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00016863 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81a\udc63 |