U+168C8 "𖣈" Bamum Letter Phase-C Njeeee Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𖣈
U+168C8 "𖣈" Bamum Letter Phase-C Njeeee is part of the Bamum script, which was developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in what is now Cameroon to write the Bamum language. This specific character represents the syllable "njeeee" from Phase C of the script's evolution, a stage where King Ibrahim Njoya and his scribes refined the original pictographic system into a more streamlined syllabary. The character appears in the Unicode standard's Supplementary Multilingual Plane, enabling its use in digital text for historical and linguistic documentation of the Bamum language and its rich writing tradition.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+168C8 |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Bamum Letter Phase-C Njeeee |
| Block | Bamum Supplement |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𖣈 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𖣈 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x96 0xA3 0x88 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81A 0xDCC8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000168C8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81a\udcc8 |