U+1692D "𖤭" Bamum Letter Phase-D Pip Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𖤭
U+1692D "𖤭" Bamum Letter Phase-D Pip is a script character from the Bamum syllabary, a writing system originally developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries for the Bamum language spoken in present-day Cameroon. This particular glyph belongs to the later "Phase-D" stage of the script's evolution under King Ibrahim Njoya and his scribes, who progressively simplified and standardized the complex system of pictographic and syllabic symbols. The letter represents a specific phonetic sound in the Bamum language, and as part of the Unicode Standard, it enables the digital preservation and modern textual use of this historically significant African script.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1692D |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Bamum Letter Phase-D Pip |
| Block | Bamum Supplement |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𖤭 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𖤭 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x96 0xA4 0xAD |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81A 0xDD2D |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001692D |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81a\udd2d |