U+16922 "𖤢" Bamum Letter Phase-D Nyet Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𖤢
U+16922 "𖤢" Bamum Letter Phase-D Nyet is part of the Bamum script, a writing system invented at the turn of the 20th century by King Ibrahim Njoya of the Bamum people in present-day Cameroon, and belongs to Phase D, one of the later stages in the script's evolutionary sequence toward simplification. This specific character, named Nyet, represents a syllable or sound used in the Bamum language and is encoded in the Supplementary Multilingual Plane, serving as a digital representation of a historically rich African script that underwent several phases of reform before falling into disuse and later revival efforts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+16922 |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Bamum Letter Phase-D Nyet |
| Block | Bamum Supplement |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𖤢 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𖤢 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x96 0xA4 0xA2 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81A 0xDD22 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00016922 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81a\udd22 |