U+1695B "ð–¥›" Bamum Letter Phase-D Ni Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ð–¥›
U+1695B "ð–¥›" Bamum Letter Phase-D Ni is a part of the Bamum script, which was historically used to write the Bamum language of present-day Cameroon, and it represents a specific syllabic sound from the script's fourth and final development stage known as Phase-D. This phase, standardized in the early 20th century under King Ibrahim Njoya, aimed to simplify the earlier pictographic system into a more phonetic syllabary. The letter "Ni" itself corresponds to a syllable pronounced with a nasal sound, and its inclusion in Unicode helps preserve this historical writing system for digital use and scholarly study.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1695B |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Bamum Letter Phase-D Ni |
| Block | Bamum Supplement |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𖥛 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𖥛 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x96 0xA5 0x9B |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81A 0xDD5B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001695B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81a\udd5b |