U+16920 "ð–¤ " Bamum Letter Phase-D Mbaa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+16920 "ð–¤ " Bamum Letter Phase-D Mbaa is a part of the Bamum script, which was developed in the early 20th century by King Ibrahim Njoya of the Bamum people in what is now Cameroon, to write the Bamum language. This specific character belongs to the Phase-D stage of the script’s evolution, representing a syllable or sound within the language’s writing system. Phase-D marks a significant reduction in the number of characters from earlier versions, moving toward a more streamlined syllabary. The letter “Mbaa” likely corresponds to a syllable pronounced with an initial /m/ sound followed by a vowel, and it is encoded in the Unicode Standard to support digital preservation and modern text processing of this historic African script.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+16920 |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Bamum Letter Phase-D Mbaa |
| Block | Bamum Supplement |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𖤠 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𖤠 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x96 0xA4 0xA0 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81A 0xDD20 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00016920 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81a\udd20 |