U+168B6 "𖢶" Bamum Letter Phase-C Lap Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𖢶
U+168B6 "𖢶" Bamum Letter Phase-C Lap is a glyph from the historic Bamum script, which was used to write the Bamum language of Cameroon. This specific character belongs to the "Phase-C" stage of the script's development in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, created under the reign of King Ibrahim Njoya. It represents a syllable or phonetic sound in the Bamum writing system, which evolved through multiple phases from a pictographic to a simpler alphabetic form. The character is encoded in the Unicode Supplementary Multilingual Plane and is used for representing the Bamum language in digital text, preserving a key part of West African cultural and linguistic heritage.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+168B6 |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Bamum Letter Phase-C Lap |
| Block | Bamum Supplement |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𖢶 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𖢶 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x96 0xA2 0xB6 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81A 0xDCB6 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000168B6 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81a\udcb6 |