U+168C3 "𖣃" Bamum Letter Phase-C Ru Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𖣃

U+168C3 "𖣃" Bamum Letter Phase-C Ru is a specific symbol from the Bamum script, which was developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in what is now Cameroon and is used to write the Bamum language. This character is part of the Phase-C version of the script, representing the syllable "ru" and forms one component of the script's evolutionary stages that saw simplification and reform by King Njoya. As a historic writing system, the Bamum script includes various phases or iterations, and Phase-C documents an intermediate period before the script was further streamlined into later forms such as Phase-D and Phase-E. The character resides in the Supplementary Multilingual Plane of the Unicode Standard, ensuring its preservation for digital use in linguistic and cultural studies.

General Properties

Code Point U+168C3
Version Added 6.0
Name Bamum Letter Phase-C Ru
Block Bamum Supplement
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 𖣃
HTML Hex Encoding 𖣃
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x96 0xA3 0x83
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD81A 0xDCC3
UTF-32 Encoding 0x000168C3
C/C++/Java Escape \ud81a\udcc3

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