U+1688E "𖢎" Bamum Letter Phase-B Ngom Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𖢎
U+1688E "𖢎" Bamum Letter Phase-B Ngom is a glyph from the Bamum script, an African writing system developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in the Kingdom of Bamum, in present day Cameroon. This specific letter represents a later stage of the script's evolution, known as Phase B, which featured a refined set of syllables. The character "𖢎" phonetically denotes the sound "ngom" and is part of a rich cultural effort by King Njoya and his scribes to record the Bamum language, history, and traditions. Its inclusion in the Unicode standard helps preserve this historical writing system for digital use and linguistic research.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1688E |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Bamum Letter Phase-B Ngom |
| Block | Bamum Supplement |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Alias | BAMUM LETTER PHASE-B NGGOM (correction) |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𖢎 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𖢎 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x96 0xA2 0x8E |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81A 0xDC8E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001688E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81a\udc8e |