U+168B8 "𖢸" Bamum Letter Phase-C Mgbasaq Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𖢸

U+168B8 "𖢸" Bamum Letter Phase-C Mgbasaq is part of the Bamum script, an indigenous writing system developed in the early 20th century by King Ibrahim Njoya of the Bamum people in present-day Cameroon. This specific letter belongs to Phase C, one of several stages in the script's evolution, and represents the syllable "mgbasaq." The character is encoded in the Supplementary Multilingual Plane of Unicode, preserving the rich linguistic heritage of the Bamum language and enabling digital representation for historical and cultural documentation.

General Properties

Code Point U+168B8
Version Added 6.0
Name Bamum Letter Phase-C Mgbasaq
Block Bamum Supplement
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 𖢸
HTML Hex Encoding 𖢸
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x96 0xA2 0xB8
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD81A 0xDCB8
UTF-32 Encoding 0x000168B8
C/C++/Java Escape \ud81a\udcb8

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