U+1686F "𖡯" Bamum Letter Phase-B Gheughen Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𖡯

U+1686F "𖡯" Bamum Letter Phase-B Gheughen is a glyph belonging to the Bamum script, a writing system developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in the Bamum Kingdom, located in present-day Cameroon. This specific character represents a consonant sound in the Phase-B stage of the script's evolution, which was an intermediate reform used to write the Bamum language before further simplification occurred. It is encoded in the Supplementary Multilingual Plane, serving as part of a larger repertoire of historical characters that help preserve the cultural and linguistic heritage of the Bamum people.

General Properties

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

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 𖡯
HTML Hex Encoding 𖡯
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x96 0xA1 0xAF
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD81A 0xDC6F
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0001686F
C/C++/Java Escape \ud81a\udc6f

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