U+168BE "ð–¢¾" Bamum Letter Phase-C Nsa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+168BE "ð–¢¾" Bamum Letter Phase-C Nsa is part of the Bamum script, a writing system developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries for the Bamum language spoken in what is now Cameroon. This specific character belongs to Phase C, one of several stages in the script's evolution devised by King Ibrahim Njoya, who systematically reformed the writing system over time. The character represents a phonetic sound or syllable, and its inclusion in Unicode helps preserve and digitize this culturally significant African script, enabling modern use in electronic texts and historical documentation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+168BE |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Bamum Letter Phase-C Nsa |
| Block | Bamum Supplement |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𖢾 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𖢾 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x96 0xA2 0xBE |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81A 0xDCBE |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000168BE |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81a\udcbe |