U+168D7 "ð–£—" Bamum Letter Phase-C Ndam Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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U+168D7 "ð–£—" Bamum Letter Phase-C Ndam is a script symbol from the Bamum syllabary, which originates from the Bamum people of Cameroon and was developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries by King Njoya. This particular character belongs to Phase C of the script's evolution, one of several stages of simplification and reorganization that the writing system underwent over several decades. Representing a specific syllable or phonetic value, the "Ndam" letter is part of a larger corpus of over 500 characters that were used to record the Bamum language and its cultural traditions. Today, this character is encoded in the Unicode Standard to preserve and facilitate digital use of the Bamum script, supporting efforts to revitalize and maintain this unique African writing system in modern computing environments.

General Properties

Code Point U+168D7
Version Added 6.0
Name Bamum Letter Phase-C Ndam
Block Bamum Supplement
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 𖣗
HTML Hex Encoding 𖣗
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x96 0xA3 0x97
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD81A 0xDCD7
UTF-32 Encoding 0x000168D7
C/C++/Java Escape \ud81a\udcd7

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Alphabetic
Script Bamum
Script Extensions Bamum
Indic Syllabic Category Other
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Rotated
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter