U+168F8 "𖣸" Bamum Letter Phase-D Nshee Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+168F8 "𖣸" Bamum Letter Phase-D Nshee is a specific glyph from the Bamum script, which originated in the Bamum Kingdom of present-day Cameroon in West Africa. This character belongs to Phase D of the script's historical development, a period when King Ibrahim Njoya and his scholars systematically revised and streamlined the original pictographic writing system into a more phonetically based syllabary. The letter "Nshee" represents a particular consonant or syllable sound within the language, and its inclusion in the Unicode Standard since version 6.0 in 2010 ensures that this culturally significant African writing system can be digitally preserved and used in modern electronic communications, scholarly research, and text rendering across digital platforms worldwide.
General Properties
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding |
𖣸 |
| HTML Hex Encoding |
𖣸 |
| UTF-8 Encoding |
0xF0 0x96 0xA3 0xB8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding |
0xD81A 0xDCF8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding |
0x000168F8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape |
\ud81a\udcf8 |
Unicode Properties