U+16870 "ð–¡°" Bamum Letter Phase-B Keuyeux Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+16870 "ð–¡°" Bamum Letter Phase-B Keuyeux is a specific glyph from the Bamum script, an African writing system developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in what is now Cameroon, originally devised by King Njoya and his scribes to write the Bamum language. This particular letter belongs to the Phase B stage of the script's evolution, which involved a significant simplification and standardization of the earlier pictographic forms into a more syllabic writing system. The letter "Keuyeux" represents a specific syllable or sound within the Bamum language, contributing to the rich and innovative history of indigenous African scripts, and it is encoded in the Unicode Standard's Bamum Supplement block to support digital preservation and modern text processing of this historical writing system.
General Properties
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding |
𖡰 |
| HTML Hex Encoding |
𖡰 |
| UTF-8 Encoding |
0xF0 0x96 0xA1 0xB0 |
| UTF-16 Encoding |
0xD81A 0xDC70 |
| UTF-32 Encoding |
0x00016870 |
| C/C++/Java Escape |
\ud81a\udc70 |
Unicode Properties