U+16902 "𖤂" Bamum Letter Phase-D Njap Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𖤂
U+16902 "𖤂" Bamum Letter Phase-D Njap is a glyph from the Bamum script, an indigenous writing system developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries for the Bamum language spoken in the Kingdom of Bamum in present-day Cameroon. This specific letter, named Njap, belongs to the Phase-D stage of the script's evolution, which was a reform initiated by King Ibrahim Njoya to simplify the earlier pictographic forms into a more manageable syllabary. The character represents a particular consonant or syllable sound within the Bamum writing system, which marks a critical step in the script's gradual transformation from complex ideograms to a phonetic alphabet over several phases.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+16902 |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Bamum Letter Phase-D Njap |
| Block | Bamum Supplement |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𖤂 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𖤂 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x96 0xA4 0x82 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81A 0xDD02 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00016902 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81a\udd02 |