U+16889 "𖢉" Bamum Letter Phase-B Let Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𖢉
U+16889 "𖢉" Bamum Letter Phase-B Let is part of the Bamum script, an indigenous writing system from the Bamum Kingdom in present-day Cameroon, devised in the early 20th century by King Njoya and his scholars. Specifically representing the syllable "let" in the Phase-B stage of the script's evolution, this character belongs to a later, more compact form of the Bamum syllabary that streamlined the original set of glyphs for improved literacy. Found in the Supplementary Multilingual Plane, it serves as a historical linguistic artifact, preserving the cultural and written heritage of the Bamum people.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+16889 |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Bamum Letter Phase-B Let |
| Block | Bamum Supplement |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𖢉 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𖢉 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x96 0xA2 0x89 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81A 0xDC89 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00016889 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81a\udc89 |