U+1688B "𖢋" Bamum Letter Phase-B Nsen Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+1688B "𖢋" Bamum Letter Phase-B Nsen is a specific glyph from the Bamum script, which was developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in what is now Cameroon, Africa, by King Njoya of the Bamum people to write the Bamum language. This character belongs to the Phase B stage of the script's evolution, representing a refined phonetic syllable used in the writing system that underwent several revisions before eventually falling out of common use. The character "sen" in Phase B, like other letters in this stage, reflects an intermediate step in the script's simplification from an earlier pictographic form to a more abstract syllabary, and it is encoded in the Unicode standard as part of the Bamum Supplement block to preserve and support digital representation of this cultural heritage.
General Properties
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding |
𖢋 |
| HTML Hex Encoding |
𖢋 |
| UTF-8 Encoding |
0xF0 0x96 0xA2 0x8B |
| UTF-16 Encoding |
0xD81A 0xDC8B |
| UTF-32 Encoding |
0x0001688B |
| C/C++/Java Escape |
\ud81a\udc8b |
Unicode Properties