U+16884 "𖢄" Bamum Letter Phase-B Mbuoq Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𖢄
U+16884 "𖢄" Bamum Letter Phase-B Mbuoq is a glyph from the Bamum script, a writing system developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in the Bamum Kingdom, located in present-day Cameroon. This specific character belongs to the Phase-B stage of the script's evolution, which represents an intermediate reform where King Njoya and his scribes simplified the original pictographic forms into a more streamlined syllabary. The character "Mbuoq" denotes a specific syllable in the Bamum language, and its inclusion in Unicode helps preserve and digitally represent the cultural heritage of the Bamum people, allowing for modern use in electronic texts and historical documentation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+16884 |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Bamum Letter Phase-B Mbuoq |
| Block | Bamum Supplement |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𖢄 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𖢄 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x96 0xA2 0x84 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81A 0xDC84 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00016884 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81a\udc84 |