U+1696C "𖥬" Bamum Letter Phase-E Paa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𖥬
U+1696C "𖥬" Bamum Letter Phase-E Paa is part of the Bamum script, which was developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries by King Njoya of the Bamum people in present-day Cameroon. This specific character belongs to the Phase-E stage, which represents a later, more streamlined version of the script after several revisions aimed at simplifying the writing system. The glyph is used to represent a syllable or phonetic sound within the Bamum language, and it is encoded in the Unicode Supplemental Multilingual Plane to support the digital preservation and modern usage of this historic African writing system.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1696C |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Bamum Letter Phase-E Paa |
| Block | Bamum Supplement |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𖥬 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𖥬 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x96 0xA5 0xAC |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81A 0xDD6C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001696C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81a\udd6c |