U+168DE "𖣞" Bamum Letter Phase-C Maemba Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𖣞
U+168DE "𖣞" Bamum Letter Phase-C Maemba is part of the Bamum script, specifically belonging to Phase C, a stage in the historical evolution of the Bamum syllabary developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in what is now Cameroon. This character represents the syllable "maemba" and was used in the Bamum language for writing royal records, religious texts, and administrative documents. The Bamum script underwent several phases of simplification, with Phase C reflecting a more streamlined set of symbols compared to earlier versions, and U+168DE contributes to the preservation of this unique African writing system in the Unicode standard.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+168DE |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Bamum Letter Phase-C Maemba |
| Block | Bamum Supplement |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𖣞 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𖣞 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x96 0xA3 0x9E |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81A 0xDCDE |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000168DE |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81a\udcde |