U+168E1 "𖣡" Bamum Letter Phase-C Mbeux Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𖣡
U+168E1 "𖣡" Bamum Letter Phase-C Mbeux is a glyph representing a syllable from the Bamum script, an African writing system originally developed in the Kingdom of Bamum, now part of Cameroon, during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. This specific character belongs to Phase C, one of the stages in the script's complex evolution under the direction of King Njoya, where the system was reformed from a pictographic to a more syllabic and simplified form. The letter "Mbeux" corresponds to a phonetic sound or syllable in the Bamum language, and its inclusion in the Unicode Standard ensures that this culturally significant script can be preserved and digitally represented for modern communication, education, and historical research.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+168E1 |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Bamum Letter Phase-C Mbeux |
| Block | Bamum Supplement |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𖣡 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𖣡 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x96 0xA3 0xA1 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81A 0xDCE1 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000168E1 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81a\udce1 |