U+168EC "𖣬" Bamum Letter Phase-C Naq Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𖣬
U+168EC "𖣬" Bamum Letter Phase-C Naq is a glyph from the Bamum script, which was developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries for writing the Bamum language of Cameroon. This specific character belongs to the Phase C stage of the script's evolution, during which King Njoya and his scribes refined and simplified the original pictographic system into a more phonetic syllabary. The letter represents the sound "naq" and is part of a larger corpus of historical Bamum texts, now encoded in Unicode to support digital preservation and study of this unique African writing system.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+168EC |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Bamum Letter Phase-C Naq |
| Block | Bamum Supplement |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𖣬 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𖣬 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x96 0xA3 0xAC |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81A 0xDCEC |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000168EC |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81a\udcec |