U+168C5 "ð–£…" Bamum Letter Phase-C Lam Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ð–£…
U+168C5 "ð–£…" Bamum Letter Phase-C Lam is a specific glyph from the Bamum script, a writing system developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in the Bamum Kingdom, located in present-day Cameroon, Africa. This character belongs to the Phase-C stage of the script's evolution, which was part of a series of reforms aimed at simplifying and standardizing the writing system for the Bamum language. As a letter representing the sound "lam," it is used in written texts to denote a consonant sound, contributing to the preservation and documentation of Bamum cultural heritage and linguistic history.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+168C5 |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Bamum Letter Phase-C Lam |
| Block | Bamum Supplement |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𖣅 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𖣅 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x96 0xA3 0x85 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81A 0xDCC5 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000168C5 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81a\udcc5 |