U+1690F "𖤏" Bamum Letter Phase-D Keuot Mbuae Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𖤏
U+1690F "𖤏" Bamum Letter Phase-D Keuot Mbuae is part of the Bamum script, a writing system developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in the Bamum kingdom of present-day Cameroon. This specific letter belongs to Phase D, an intermediate stage of the script's evolution, and represents the sound "keuot mbuae" in the Bamum language. As a member of the Bamum Supplement block in Unicode, it preserves a historically important element of West African cultural heritage, documenting the kingdom's transition from pictographic to syllabic writing under King Njoya's leadership.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1690F |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Bamum Letter Phase-D Keuot Mbuae |
| Block | Bamum Supplement |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𖤏 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𖤏 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x96 0xA4 0x8F |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81A 0xDD0F |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001690F |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81a\udd0f |