U+168D9 "ð–£™" Bamum Letter Phase-C Yaa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ð–£™
U+168D9 "ð–£™" Bamum Letter Phase-C Yaa is a glyph from the Bamum script, an indigenous writing system developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries for the Bamum language spoken in the Cameroon Grassfields. This specific letter, named Yaa, belongs to Phase C of the script's evolution, which was a significant stage in its simplification and standardization under King Ibrahim Njoya. The character represents a syllable, likely with a sound similar to "ya," and is part of a rich cultural heritage that continues to be studied and preserved for its historical and linguistic importance.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+168D9 |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Bamum Letter Phase-C Yaa |
| Block | Bamum Supplement |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𖣙 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𖣙 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x96 0xA3 0x99 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81A 0xDCD9 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000168D9 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81a\udcd9 |