U+168B9 "ð–¢¹" Bamum Letter Phase-C Nteungba Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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U+168B9 "ð–¢¹" Bamum Letter Phase-C Nteungba is part of the Bamum script, a writing system developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries for the Bamum language spoken in present day Cameroon. This specific character belongs to Phase C, one of several stages in the script's evolution toward simplification and standardization, and it represents the syllable "nteungba" or a similar phonetic value used in writing the Bamum language. The character is encoded in the Unicode Supplementary Multilingual Plane, specifically within the Bamum Supplement block, which supports historical and modern usage of this indigenous African script.

General Properties

Code Point U+168B9
Version Added 6.0
Name Bamum Letter Phase-C Nteungba
Block Bamum Supplement
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 𖢹
HTML Hex Encoding 𖢹
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x96 0xA2 0xB9
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD81A 0xDCB9
UTF-32 Encoding 0x000168B9
C/C++/Java Escape \ud81a\udcb9

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