U+16949 "𖥉" Bamum Letter Phase-D Ku Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+16949 "𖥉" Bamum Letter Phase-D Ku is a script character from the Bamum writing system, which was developed in present day Cameroon during the late 19th and early 20th centuries by King Njoya and his advisors through a series of phases to refine the syllabary. This particular character belongs to Phase D, one of the later stages of the script's evolution, where the writing system was streamlined into a more efficient alphabet, and it represents the syllable "ku". The Bamum script holds cultural and historical significance as a rare example of an indigenous African script created to record the language and history of the Bamum people, and its inclusion in Unicode helps preserve this heritage for digital use.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+16949 |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Bamum Letter Phase-D Ku |
| Block | Bamum Supplement |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𖥉 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𖥉 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x96 0xA5 0x89 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81A 0xDD49 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00016949 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81a\udd49 |