U+16906 "𖤆" Bamum Letter Phase-D Kuom Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𖤆
U+16906 "𖤆" Bamum Letter Phase-D Kuom is a glyph from the Bamum script, an indigenous writing system developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries for the Bamum language of Cameroon, specifically representing the Kuom syllable during the script’s Phase-D reform period. This phase, part of a series of script simplifications initiated by King Ibrahim Njoya, reduced the number of characters from hundreds to a more manageable set, with the Kuom glyph contributing to the phonetic representation of the language. The character serves as a tangible link to the cultural and historical evolution of the Bamum people, preserving their written heritage in modern digital encoding systems.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+16906 |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Bamum Letter Phase-D Kuom |
| Block | Bamum Supplement |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𖤆 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𖤆 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x96 0xA4 0x86 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81A 0xDD06 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00016906 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81a\udd06 |