U+16965 "ð–¥¥" Bamum Letter Phase-D Faa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ð–¥¥
U+16965 "ð–¥¥" Bamum Letter Phase-D Faa is a character from the Bamum script, an African writing system developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in what is now Cameroon. This specific character belongs to the Phase-D stage of the script's evolution, a later refinement of the original Bamum syllabary created by King Njoya and his scribes. The letter represents the sound "faa" and is encoded in the Supplementary Multilingual Plane, serving as a tangible part of the effort to preserve and digitize the cultural heritage of the Bamum people.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+16965 |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Bamum Letter Phase-D Faa |
| Block | Bamum Supplement |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𖥥 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𖥥 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x96 0xA5 0xA5 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81A 0xDD65 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00016965 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81a\udd65 |