U+168A4 "𖢤" Bamum Letter Phase-C Mbue Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𖢤
U+168A4 "𖢤" Bamum Letter Phase-C Mbue is part of the Bamum script, which was developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in what is now Cameroon, first as a writing system by King Njoya of the Bamum people and later reformed through multiple phases. Phase-C refers to one of the script's historical stages of simplification and standardization, and the specific letter "Mbue" represents a syllable or sound within that orthographic system. This character belongs to the Supplementary Multilingual Plane and is used primarily for historical and scholarly texts documenting the Bamum language and its cultural heritage. Its inclusion in Unicode helps preserve the written tradition of a key West African language.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+168A4 |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Bamum Letter Phase-C Mbue |
| Block | Bamum Supplement |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𖢤 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𖢤 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x96 0xA2 0xA4 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81A 0xDCA4 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000168A4 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81a\udca4 |