U+168EE "ð–£®" Bamum Letter Phase-C Pin Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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U+168EE "ð–£®" Bamum Letter Phase-C Pin is a glyph from the Bamum scripts, which were historically used to write the Bamum language of Cameroon. This specific letter belongs to the Phase-C stage of the Bamum script's evolution, representing a later, simpler syllabic writing system developed under King Ibrahim Njoya in the early 20th century. The character encodes a distinct phonetic value used in the Bamum language, and its inclusion in Unicode supports the digital preservation and typographic representation of this unique West African writing tradition.

General Properties

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

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 𖣮
HTML Hex Encoding 𖣮
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x96 0xA3 0xAE
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD81A 0xDCEE
UTF-32 Encoding 0x000168EE
C/C++/Java Escape \ud81a\udcee

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