U+16948 "𖥈" Bamum Letter Phase-D Gheuae Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+16948 "𖥈" Bamum Letter Phase-D Gheuae is a specific glyph belonging to the Bamum script, an indigenous writing system developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in the Bamum Kingdom, located in present-day Cameroon. This character is part of the "Phase-D" stage of the script's evolution, which was one of several reforms undertaken by King Ibrahim Njoya and his advisors to simplify and standardize the writing system. The letter "Gheuae" represents a particular syllable or sound in the Bamum language, and its inclusion in Unicode helps preserve and digitally represent this historic African script, enabling modern communication and cultural documentation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+16948 |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Bamum Letter Phase-D Gheuae |
| Block | Bamum Supplement |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𖥈 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𖥈 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x96 0xA5 0x88 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81A 0xDD48 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00016948 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81a\udd48 |