U+16891 "𖢑" Bamum Letter Phase-C Yum Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𖢑
U+16891 "𖢑" Bamum Letter Phase-C Yum is a script character from the Bamum syllabary, a writing system developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries for the Bamum language spoken in present-day Cameroon. This specific letter belongs to the Phase-C stage of the script's evolution, which was part of a series of revisions made by King Ibrahim Njoya and his scribes to simplify and standardize the system. It represents a particular syllable in the Bamum language and serves as a historical artifact of the script's gradual shift from a complex pictographic to a more streamlined phonetic writing system.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+16891 |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Bamum Letter Phase-C Yum |
| Block | Bamum Supplement |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𖢑 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𖢑 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x96 0xA2 0x91 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81A 0xDC91 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00016891 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81a\udc91 |