U+1692F "𖤯" Bamum Letter Phase-D Nyue Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𖤯

U+1692F "𖤯" Bamum Letter Phase-D Nyue is part of the Bamum script, which was developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in the Kingdom of Bamum, located in present-day Cameroon. This specific character belongs to Phase D of the script's evolution, a standardized phonetic stage created by King Njoya and his scribes in the early 1900s, and it represents a distinct syllable or sound in the Bamum language. The character's design reflects the geometric and abstract forms typical of this writing system, which gradually simplified from earlier pictorial symbols into a more streamlined alphabet. As part of the Unicode Standard, it ensures that this historic African script can be preserved and used in digital text, enabling modern communication and cultural heritage documentation for the Bamum people.

General Properties

Code Point U+1692F
Version Added 6.0
Name Bamum Letter Phase-D Nyue
Block Bamum Supplement
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 𖤯
HTML Hex Encoding 𖤯
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x96 0xA4 0xAF
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD81A 0xDD2F
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0001692F
C/C++/Java Escape \ud81a\udd2f

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