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

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Alphabetic
Script Bamum
Script Extensions Bamum
Indic Syllabic Category Other
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Rotated
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter