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

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