U+16878 "𖡸" Bamum Letter Phase-B Taam Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𖡸
U+16878 "𖡸" Bamum Letter Phase-B Taam is part of the Bamum script, a writing system developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in what is now Cameroon. This specific character represents a syllabic sign from Phase B, one of the later stages in the script's evolution, where the original pictographic forms were simplified and systematized by King Ibrahim Njoya and his scribes. "Taam" denotes a phonetic value associated with the syllable, and its encoding in Unicode ensures its preservation and digital use for scholarly, historical, and cultural purposes, particularly in the study of the Bamum language and the unique writing innovations of the Bamum kingdom.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+16878 |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Bamum Letter Phase-B Taam |
| Block | Bamum Supplement |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𖡸 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𖡸 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x96 0xA1 0xB8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81A 0xDC78 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00016878 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81a\udc78 |