U+168A8 "𖢨" Bamum Letter Phase-C Kparaq Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𖢨
U+168A8 "𖢨" Bamum Letter Phase-C Kparaq is a glyph from the Bamum scripts, a system of writing developed in the early 20th century for the Bamum language spoken in present day Cameroon. This specific character belongs to Phase C, one of the later stages in the script's evolution from a pictographic system to a more syllabic and phonetic alphabet. Its name "Kparaq" likely represents a particular syllable or sound in the language, reflecting the script's purpose of accurately recording spoken words. The character is encoded in the Bamum Supplement block of Unicode, which preserves these historical writing forms for digital use and scholarly study.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+168A8 |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Bamum Letter Phase-C Kparaq |
| Block | Bamum Supplement |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𖢨 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𖢨 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x96 0xA2 0xA8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81A 0xDCA8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000168A8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81a\udca8 |