U+1691A "𖤚" Bamum Letter Phase-D Mgbeun Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𖤚
U+1691A "𖤚" Bamum Letter Phase-D Mgbeun is a specific glyph from the Bamum script, an indigenous writing system developed in the early 20th century for the Bamum language of Cameroon. It belongs to the Phase-D set of the script, which was part of a series of orthographic reforms led by King Ibrahim Njoya to make writing more accessible and efficient. The name "Mgbeun" refers to its phonetic value, representing a particular syllable in the Bamum language, and it is used historically and culturally for recording texts, proverbs, and royal decrees of the Bamum kingdom.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1691A |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Bamum Letter Phase-D Mgbeun |
| Block | Bamum Supplement |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𖤚 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𖤚 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x96 0xA4 0x9A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81A 0xDD1A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001691A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81a\udd1a |