U+16903 "𖤃" Bamum Letter Phase-D Sue Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𖤃
U+16903 "𖤃" Bamum Letter Phase-D Sue is part of the Bamum script, which was developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries by King Njoya of the Bamum people in present day Cameroon. This specific character belongs to the Phase D revision of the script, a stage in the script's evolution that reduced its hundreds of original pictographic symbols into a more streamlined syllable based writing system. The letter "Sue" represents a particular syllable in the Bamum language and is encoded in the Unicode Standard's Bamum Supplement block, ensuring its preservation and digital representation for modern communication and linguistic study.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+16903 |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Bamum Letter Phase-D Sue |
| Block | Bamum Supplement |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𖤃 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𖤃 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x96 0xA4 0x83 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81A 0xDD03 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00016903 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81a\udd03 |