U+1689E "𖢞" Bamum Letter Phase-C Mbaa Cabbage-Tree Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𖢞

U+1689E "𖢞" Bamum Letter Phase-C Mbaa Cabbage-Tree is a part of the Bamum script, which was developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in the Bamum Kingdom of present-day Cameroon. This particular character belongs to the "Phase-C" revision of the script, where the script was systematically reorganized and simplified by King Njoya and his scribes. Its name includes the term "Mbaa Cabbage-Tree," suggesting that the character originally represented a word or syllable associated with a specific type of cabbage tree in the Bamum language, reflecting the script’s deeply pictographic roots before it evolved into a more syllabic writing system. As a historical and cultural artifact encoded in Unicode, it helps preserve the rich linguistic heritage of the Bamum people.

General Properties

Code Point U+1689E
Version Added 6.0
Name Bamum Letter Phase-C Mbaa Cabbage-Tree
Block Bamum Supplement
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 𖢞
HTML Hex Encoding 𖢞
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x96 0xA2 0x9E
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD81A 0xDC9E
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0001689E
C/C++/Java Escape \ud81a\udc9e

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Alphabetic
Script Bamum
Script Extensions Bamum
Indic Syllabic Category Other
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Rotated
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter