U+168A2 "ð–¢¢" Bamum Letter Phase-C Yu Muomae Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

ð–¢¢

U+168A2 "ð–¢¢" Bamum Letter Phase-C Yu Muomae is a glyph from the Bamum script, specifically belonging to Phase C of the writing system's historical development, which was a significant revision of the Bamum syllabary created in the early 20th century by King Ibrahim Njoya of the Bamum people in present day Cameroon. This character represents the syllable "yu" and is used for writing the Bamum language, a Niger-Congo language spoken by the Bamum community. The inclusion of this character in Unicode helps preserve and support the digital representation of the Bamum script, allowing for modern electronic communication and documentation of this culturally important writing system.

General Properties

Code Point U+168A2
Version Added 6.0
Name Bamum Letter Phase-C Yu Muomae
Block Bamum Supplement
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 𖢢
HTML Hex Encoding 𖢢
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x96 0xA2 0xA2
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD81A 0xDCA2
UTF-32 Encoding 0x000168A2
C/C++/Java Escape \ud81a\udca2

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