U+168EA "𖣪" Bamum Letter Phase-C Ken Fatigue Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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U+168EA "𖣪" Bamum Letter Phase-C Ken Fatigue is part of the Bamum script, an African writing system developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in the Kingdom of Bamum, located in present-day Cameroon. This specific character belongs to the third phase of the script's evolution, known as Phase-C, which was a simplified and more standardized iteration created under King Ibrahim Njoya to make the syllabary more accessible for writing the Bamum language. The name "Ken Fatigue" refers to the particular syllable or phonetic value assigned to this glyph, though its precise linguistic function is tied to the historical documentation of the language. Encoded in Unicode as part of the Bamum Supplement block, this character helps preserve a key piece of West African cultural heritage, reflecting the region's innovative approach to literacy and written communication.

General Properties

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

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 𖣪
HTML Hex Encoding 𖣪
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x96 0xA3 0xAA
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD81A 0xDCEA
UTF-32 Encoding 0x000168EA
C/C++/Java Escape \ud81a\udcea

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