U+16916 "𖤖" Bamum Letter Phase-D Mgbofum Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𖤖
U+16916 "𖤖" Bamum Letter Phase-D Mgbofum is part of the Bamum script, a writing system historically used for the Bamum language in present-day Cameroon. This specific glyph represents the "Phase-D" stage of the script's evolution, during which King Njoya Ibrahim streamlined and simplified the earlier, more pictographic Bamum letters into a more phonetic and standardized syllabary. The character "Mgbofum" corresponds to a particular syllable or sound value within that reformed orthography, reflecting the script's transition from a logographic to an alphabetic system in the early 20th century.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+16916 |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Bamum Letter Phase-D Mgbofum |
| Block | Bamum Supplement |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𖤖 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𖤖 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x96 0xA4 0x96 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81A 0xDD16 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00016916 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81a\udd16 |