U+1686B "ð–¡«" Bamum Letter Phase-B Mfon Teuaeq Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

ð–¡«

U+1686B "ð–¡«" Bamum Letter Phase-B Mfon Teuaeq is a glyph from the Bamum scripts, a set of writing systems developed for the Bamum language of Cameroon in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. This specific letter belongs to Phase B, an intermediate stage of the script's evolution, where King Njoya and his scribes simplified the earlier pictographic forms into a more syllabic writing system. Phonetically, "Mfon Teuaeq" represents a particular sound or syllable within this phase, contributing to the rich orthographic history of a language that transformed from a complex system of over 500 characters to a streamlined alphabet in later phases. As part of the Unicode Standard, this character ensures that the historical and cultural documentation of the Bamum people can be digitally preserved and accurately represented across modern computing platforms.

General Properties

Code Point U+1686B
Version Added 6.0
Name Bamum Letter Phase-B Mfon Teuaeq
Block Bamum Supplement
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 𖡫
HTML Hex Encoding 𖡫
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x96 0xA1 0xAB
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD81A 0xDC6B
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0001686B
C/C++/Java Escape \ud81a\udc6b

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Alphabetic
Script Bamum
Script Extensions Bamum
Indic Syllabic Category Other
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Rotated
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter