U+16896 "ð–¢–" Bamum Letter Phase-C Gharae Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+16896 "ð–¢–" Bamum Letter Phase-C Gharae is part of the Bamum script, which was developed in the early 20th century by King Ibrahim Njoya of the Bamum people in present-day Cameroon as a writing system for the Bamum language. This specific character belongs to the script's Phase C, a stage that refined and expanded the original syllabary to better represent the language's sounds, with "Gharae" likely representing a particular consonant or syllable value. It is encoded in the Unicode standard's Bamum block to support digital preservation and use of this historical writing system.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+16896 |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Bamum Letter Phase-C Gharae |
| Block | Bamum Supplement |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𖢖 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𖢖 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x96 0xA2 0x96 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81A 0xDC96 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00016896 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81a\udc96 |