U+168B0 "ð–¢°" Bamum Letter Phase-C Ngguaen Nyam Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ð–¢°
U+168B0 "ð–¢°" Bamum Letter Phase-C Ngguaen Nyam is a part of the Bamum script, which was developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries for writing the Bamum language spoken in Cameroon. This specific character represents a syllable or phonetic unit from the third phase of the script's evolution, known as Phase-C, where the system was refined from earlier pictographic forms into a more streamlined syllabary. The name "Ngguaen Nyam" likely corresponds to a particular phonetic value within this writing system, which was historically used for royal decrees, correspondence, and cultural records, though it fell into disuse and was later revived in modern times.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+168B0 |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Bamum Letter Phase-C Ngguaen Nyam |
| Block | Bamum Supplement |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𖢰 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𖢰 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x96 0xA2 0xB0 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81A 0xDCB0 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000168B0 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81a\udcb0 |