U+168C1 "𖣁" Bamum Letter Phase-C Veuaepen Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𖣁

U+168C1 "𖣁" Bamum Letter Phase-C Veuaepen is a specific glyph from the Bamum script, which originated in the Bamum Kingdom (present-day Cameroon) and was developed in stages by King Njoya and his scribes in the early 20th century to write the Bamum language. This particular character belongs to the script's Phase-C iteration, representing a refined and simplified version of the earlier syllabary, where it corresponds to the syllable "veuaepen" as part of a comprehensive writing system that saw several revisions before falling out of widespread use. The character is encoded in the Unicode Standard within the Supplementary Multilingual Plane, specifically in the Bamum Supplement block, ensuring its preservation for digital text representation and scholarly study of this unique African writing tradition.

General Properties

Code Point U+168C1
Version Added 6.0
Name Bamum Letter Phase-C Veuaepen
Block Bamum Supplement
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 𖣁
HTML Hex Encoding 𖣁
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x96 0xA3 0x81
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD81A 0xDCC1
UTF-32 Encoding 0x000168C1
C/C++/Java Escape \ud81a\udcc1

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