U+168CA "𖣊" Bamum Letter Phase-C Nggu Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+168CA "𖣊" Bamum Letter Phase-C Nggu is a glyph from the Bamum script, an indigenous writing system developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in the Bamum Kingdom, located in present-day Cameroon. This specific character belongs to Phase C, one of several evolutionary stages of the script, and represents the syllable "nggu." The Bamum script was created by King Njoya and underwent multiple revisions to better encode the sounds of the Bamum language, with Phase C representing a significant simplification and standardization effort. Today, these characters are encoded in the Unicode standard to preserve and support digital use of the script, which is still used by some communities for cultural and linguistic documentation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+168CA |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Bamum Letter Phase-C Nggu |
| Block | Bamum Supplement |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𖣊 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𖣊 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x96 0xA3 0x8A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81A 0xDCCA |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000168CA |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81a\udcca |