U+16943 "𖥃" Bamum Letter Phase-D Nggap Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+16943 "𖥃" Bamum Letter Phase-D Nggap is part of the Bamum script, which was developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in what is now Cameroon by King Njoya of the Bamum people. This specific character belongs to Phase D, one of the later stages in the script's evolution from a pictographic system to a more streamlined syllabary. Representing the syllable "nggap," it serves as a written symbol for a phonetic unit in the Bamum language, which was historically used for court records, correspondence, and religious texts. Added to the Unicode Standard in 2018 with Version 11.0, the character preserves a unique piece of West African writing history and cultural heritage, facilitating digital text representation and research into the script's complex development.
General Properties
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding |
𖥃 |
| HTML Hex Encoding |
𖥃 |
| UTF-8 Encoding |
0xF0 0x96 0xA5 0x83 |
| UTF-16 Encoding |
0xD81A 0xDD43 |
| UTF-32 Encoding |
0x00016943 |
| C/C++/Java Escape |
\ud81a\udd43 |
Unicode Properties