U+168E3 "ð–££" Bamum Letter Phase-C Mbaa Picket Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ð–££
U+168E3 "ð–££" Bamum Letter Phase-C Mbaa Picket is a symbol from the Bamum script, an indigenous writing system developed in the early 20th century for the Bamum language of Cameroon. This specific character belongs to the third phase of the script's evolution, known as Phase C, and represents a syllable or phonetic value corresponding to "mbaa" which translates to "picket" in the context of the language's vocabulary. As part of the Bamum Supplement block, this character helps preserve and digitally encode the rich linguistic heritage of the Bamum people, enabling accurate representation of their written history and cultural communication in modern computing environments.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+168E3 |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Bamum Letter Phase-C Mbaa Picket |
| Block | Bamum Supplement |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𖣣 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𖣣 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x96 0xA3 0xA3 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81A 0xDCE3 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000168E3 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81a\udce3 |