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 |