U+16900 "𖤀" Bamum Letter Phase-D Teut Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𖤀
U+16900 "𖤀" Bamum Letter Phase-D Teut is a glyph from the Bamum script, an indigenous 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 script's Phase-D stage, a reform that simplified earlier phases to create a more concise writing system. The letter "Teut" represents a specific syllable sound within the Bamum language, which was historically used to record royal decrees, historical records, and cultural texts. Encode in the Unicode Standard's Supplementary Multilingual Plane, this character helps preserve the rich linguistic heritage of the Bamum people.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+16900 |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Bamum Letter Phase-D Teut |
| Block | Bamum Supplement |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𖤀 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𖤀 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x96 0xA4 0x80 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81A 0xDD00 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00016900 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81a\udd00 |