U+168CE "𖣎" Bamum Letter Phase-C Kut Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𖣎
U+168CE "𖣎" Bamum Letter Phase-C Kut is a glyph from the Bamum script, an indigenous writing system developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in the Kingdom of Bamum, located in present day Cameroon. This particular character represents the syllable "kut" as defined in Phase C of the script's evolution, which is part of a series of reforms aimed at simplifying and standardizing the Bamum syllabary. The character is used to write the Bamum language, and its inclusion in Unicode ensures that it can be digitally preserved and rendered across modern computing platforms, supporting the ongoing cultural and linguistic heritage of the Bamum people.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+168CE |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Bamum Letter Phase-C Kut |
| Block | Bamum Supplement |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𖣎 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𖣎 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x96 0xA3 0x8E |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81A 0xDCCE |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000168CE |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81a\udcce |