U+1689B "ð–¢›" Bamum Letter Phase-C Mbeum Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1689B "ð–¢›" Bamum Letter Phase-C Mbeum is a glyph from the Bamum script, which was developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in what is now Cameroon, specifically representing the sound "mbeum" in the language's third orthographic revision known as Phase C. This character is part of a larger effort to encode the Bamum syllabary, a writing system created by King Njoya of the Bamum people to transcribe their language, and its inclusion in Unicode preserves an important piece of African linguistic and cultural heritage. The letter serves as a typographic unit that allows for digital representation and documentation of the Bamum language in modern computing environments.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1689B |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Bamum Letter Phase-C Mbeum |
| Block | Bamum Supplement |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𖢛 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𖢛 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x96 0xA2 0x9B |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81A 0xDC9B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001689B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81a\udc9b |