U+16904 "𖤄" Bamum Letter Phase-D Ket Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𖤄
U+16904 "𖤄" Bamum Letter Phase-D Ket is a specific glyph from the Bamum script, an African writing system created in the late 19th and early 20th centuries by King Ibrahim Njoya of the Bamum people in present-day Cameroon. This character belongs to Phase-D, which was the fourth distinct version of the script developed as King Njoya refined and simplified the writing system over time. The letter "Ket" represents a consonant sound in the Bamum language, and its presence in Unicode helps preserve and digitize this important cultural heritage, enabling modern communication and historical study of the Bamum script and its evolution.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+16904 |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Bamum Letter Phase-D Ket |
| Block | Bamum Supplement |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𖤄 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𖤄 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x96 0xA4 0x84 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81A 0xDD04 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00016904 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81a\udd04 |