U+16931 "𖤱" Bamum Letter Phase-D Nggaam Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𖤱
U+16931 "𖤱" Bamum Letter Phase-D Nggaam is a specific glyph from the Bamum script, an indigenous writing system used historically for the Bamum language of Cameroon. This character represents the syllable "nggaam" and is part of the Phase-D stage of the script's evolution, which was one of several reformations and simplifications undertaken by the Bamum king and scholars in the early 20th century. As a component of the Bamum block in Unicode, it serves to preserve and digitally represent a unique cultural heritage, enabling modern text processing and linguistic study of this West African language.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+16931 |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Bamum Letter Phase-D Nggaam |
| Block | Bamum Supplement |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𖤱 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𖤱 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x96 0xA4 0xB1 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81A 0xDD31 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00016931 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81a\udd31 |