U+16933 "𖤳" Bamum Letter Phase-D Nggwaen Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+16933 "𖤳" Bamum Letter Phase-D Nggwaen is a symbol from the Bamum scripts, specifically representing a letter in the fourth phase of the Bamum syllabary, which was developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in the Cameroon region. The character corresponds to the syllable "nggwaen" and is part of a larger writing system created by King Ibrahim Njoya for the Bamum language. This phase-D version represents a stage in the evolution of the script from a pictorial logography to a more streamlined syllabary, and it is encoded in the Unicode Standard's Supplementary Multilingual Plane to support digital preservation of historical African writing systems.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+16933 |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Bamum Letter Phase-D Nggwaen |
| Block | Bamum Supplement |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𖤳 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𖤳 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x96 0xA4 0xB3 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81A 0xDD33 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00016933 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81a\udd33 |