U+16941 "𖥁" Bamum Letter Phase-D Teun Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𖥁
U+16941 "𖥁" Bamum Letter Phase-D Teun is a part of the Bamum script, a writing system created for the Bamum language of Cameroon, and it belongs to the script's Phase-D stage, which was one of several successive simplifications and refinements developed by King Njoya and his scribes in the early 20th century. This specific character represents the syllable "teun" and was used in historical documents and royal decrees before the script fell out of common use. The character is encoded in the Supplementary Multilingual Plane and is classified under the "Bamum Supplement" block, preserving an important piece of West African cultural and linguistic heritage.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+16941 |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Bamum Letter Phase-D Teun |
| Block | Bamum Supplement |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𖥁 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𖥁 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x96 0xA5 0x81 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81A 0xDD41 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00016941 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81a\udd41 |