U+168C9 "𖣉" Bamum Letter Phase-C Ket Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𖣉
U+168C9 "𖣉" Bamum Letter Phase-C Ket is a glyph from the Bamum script, used historically in the Cameroon region to write the Bamum language. This specific letter belongs to Phase C of the script's evolution, representing one of the later stages of its development under King Ibrahim Njoya's reforms in the early 20th century. It corresponds to a particular syllable or phonetic value within the Bamum writing system, which was designed to transliterate and standardize the local language, though the script largely fell out of common use and was revived later for cultural and academic purposes.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+168C9 |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Bamum Letter Phase-C Ket |
| Block | Bamum Supplement |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𖣉 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𖣉 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x96 0xA3 0x89 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81A 0xDCC9 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000168C9 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81a\udcc9 |