U+1691F "𖤟" Bamum Letter Phase-D Nsieep Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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U+1691F "𖤟" Bamum Letter Phase-D Nsieep is a script sign from the Bamum syllabary, an indigenous writing system developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in what is now Cameroon, Africa. This specific character belongs to the Phase-D stage of the script's evolution, which represents a streamlined and standardized iteration of the Bamum alphabet created under the direction of King Ibrahim Njoya and his scribes. The letter is known as "Nsieep" and serves as a phonetic symbol for a syllable in the Bamum language, contributing to the writing of historical records, royal chronicles, and cultural texts. It is encoded in the Supplementary Multilingual Plane of Unicode, helping to preserve and digitally represent this once nearly lost African script for modern linguistic and historical study.

General Properties

Code Point U+1691F
Version Added 6.0
Name Bamum Letter Phase-D Nsieep
Block Bamum Supplement
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 𖤟
HTML Hex Encoding 𖤟
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x96 0xA4 0x9F
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD81A 0xDD1F
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0001691F
C/C++/Java Escape \ud81a\udd1f

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