U+168F0 "ð–£°" Bamum Letter Phase-C Tet Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

ð–£°

U+168F0 "ð–£°" Bamum Letter Phase-C Tet is a glyph from the Bamum script, which was historically used to write the Bamum language of Cameroon, representing a specific syllable or phonetic value within the script's third phase of development known as Phase-C. This character was added to the Unicode Standard as part of the Bamum Supplement block, which encodes a series of historical syllabic signs that evolved from an earlier pictographic system into a more streamlined writing system. The character "Tet" serves as one of the many symbols that preserve the linguistic and cultural heritage of the Bamum people, offering a digital representation of a script that was actively reformed and simplified by King Ibrahim Njoya in the early 20th century.

General Properties

Code Point U+168F0
Version Added 6.0
Name Bamum Letter Phase-C Tet
Block Bamum Supplement
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 𖣰
HTML Hex Encoding 𖣰
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x96 0xA3 0xB0
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD81A 0xDCF0
UTF-32 Encoding 0x000168F0
C/C++/Java Escape \ud81a\udcf0

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