U+16876 "𖡶" Bamum Letter Phase-B Wuaet Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𖡶
U+16876 "𖡶" Bamum Letter Phase-B Wuaet is a glyph from the Bamum script, an indigenous writing system of the Bamum people in present day Cameroon, specifically representing one of the later evolutionary stages known as Phase B. This character corresponds to a syllable in the Bamum language, pronounced roughly as "wuaet," and was part of a significant orthographic reform undertaken by King Ibrahim Njoya in the early 20th century to simplify and standardize the script. Its inclusion in Unicode supports the digital preservation and modern usage of this historical African writing system.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+16876 |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Bamum Letter Phase-B Wuaet |
| Block | Bamum Supplement |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𖡶 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𖡶 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x96 0xA1 0xB6 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81A 0xDC76 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00016876 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81a\udc76 |