U+168C2 "𖣂" Bamum Letter Phase-C Mberae Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𖣂

U+168C2 "𖣂" Bamum Letter Phase-C Mberae is a glyph from the Bamum script, a writing system historically developed in the early 20th century by King Njoya of the Bamum people in present-day Cameroon. This specific character belongs to the Phase-C stage of the script's evolution, which introduced simplified and more standardized symbols to replace earlier complex pictographic forms. It represents the syllable "mberae" and is part of a larger set of characters used to write the Bamum language, reflecting the script's historical progression toward a more efficient phonetic system. Today, this character is encoded in the Unicode Standard's Supplementary Multilingual Plane, allowing for digital preservation and use of this once nearly lost writing tradition.

General Properties

Code Point U+168C2
Version Added 6.0
Name Bamum Letter Phase-C Mberae
Block Bamum Supplement
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 𖣂
HTML Hex Encoding 𖣂
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x96 0xA3 0x82
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD81A 0xDCC2
UTF-32 Encoding 0x000168C2
C/C++/Java Escape \ud81a\udcc2

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