U+16960 "ð–¥ " Bamum Letter Phase-D Ren Much Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ð–¥
U+16960 "ð–¥ " Bamum Letter Phase-D Ren Much is a glyph from the Bamum script, which was developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries for writing the Bamum language of Cameroon. This specific character belongs to Phase D, a later stage in the script's evolution under King Ibrahim Njoya, who simplified the original complex set of over 500 characters into more manageable phases. The letter represents the syllable "ren" or a similar sound and contributes to the rich linguistic heritage of the Bamum people, now encoded in the Unicode standard to support digital preservation and use.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+16960 |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Bamum Letter Phase-D Ren Much |
| Block | Bamum Supplement |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𖥠 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𖥠 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x96 0xA5 0xA0 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81A 0xDD60 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00016960 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81a\udd60 |