U+16879 "ð–¡¹" Bamum Letter Phase-B Meuq Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ð–¡¹
U+16879 "ð–¡¹" Bamum Letter Phase-B Meuq is a specific glyph from the Bamum script, which was developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries by King Njoya of the Bamum people in present-day Cameroon. This character belongs to Phase B of the script's evolution, representing a stage where the writing system was refined and expanded into a syllabary. The "Meuq" phonetic value corresponds to the sound of the letter, and the character is part of a larger set of symbols used to record the Bamum language. While the script largely fell out of use over the 20th century, Unicode’s inclusion of this and other Bamum characters has helped preserve and digitally encode this important piece of African cultural and linguistic history.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+16879 |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Bamum Letter Phase-B Meuq |
| Block | Bamum Supplement |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𖡹 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𖡹 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x96 0xA1 0xB9 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81A 0xDC79 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00016879 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81a\udc79 |