U+16873 "ð–¡³" Bamum Letter Phase-B Veum Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ð–¡³
U+16873 "ð–¡³" Bamum Letter Phase-B Veum is a glyph belonging to the Bamum script, an African writing system developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in present-day Cameroon by King Njoya and his scribes. This specific letter represents the sound "veum" and is part of the Phase-B stage of the script's evolution, which simplified an earlier pictographic version into a more syllabic and abstract form. The character serves as a linguistic tool for writing the Bamum language, preserving the cultural heritage of the Bamum people and facilitating modern digital documentation of their historical writing system.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+16873 |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Bamum Letter Phase-B Veum |
| Block | Bamum Supplement |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𖡳 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𖡳 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x96 0xA1 0xB3 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81A 0xDC73 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00016873 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81a\udc73 |