U+16869 "ð–¡©" Bamum Letter Phase-B Shet Njaq Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+16869 "ð–¡©" Bamum Letter Phase-B Shet Njaq is a glyph from the Bamum script, a writing system developed in the early 20th century for the Bamum language of Cameroon. This specific letter belongs to Phase-B, a revised and simplified version of the original Bamum script created by King Njoya and his scribes, and it represents a consonant sound used in the language. The character is part of a larger corpus of historical script reforms that aimed to make writing more accessible and efficient for the Bamum people, and it is encoded in the Unicode standard to preserve and enable digital representation of this cultural heritage.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+16869 |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Bamum Letter Phase-B Shet Njaq |
| Block | Bamum Supplement |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𖡩 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𖡩 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x96 0xA1 0xA9 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81A 0xDC69 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00016869 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81a\udc69 |