U+16951 "𖥑" Bamum Letter Phase-D M Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𖥑
U+16951 "𖥑" Bamum Letter Phase-D M is part of the Bamum script, which was developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in the Cameroon region for writing the Bamum language. This specific character belongs to Phase D, one of several evolutionary stages in the script's simplification led by King Ibrahim Njoya, where the system was reduced from over 500 characters to around 80 syllabic signs. The letter represents the sound "m" and, like other Bamum Phase-D characters, reflects the script's shift from a pictographic to a more streamlined phonetic writing system.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+16951 |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Bamum Letter Phase-D M |
| Block | Bamum Supplement |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𖥑 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𖥑 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x96 0xA5 0x91 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81A 0xDD51 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00016951 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81a\udd51 |