U+16974 "𖥴" Bamum Letter Phase-E Kpeux Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+16974 "𖥴" Bamum Letter Phase-E Kpeux is a specific glyph from the Bamum script, an indigenous writing system developed in the Bamum Kingdom of present day Cameroon. This character represents the syllable or sound "kpeux" and belongs to Phase E of the script, which was one of several major reform stages undertaken by King Njoya in the early 20th century to simplify and standardize the complex original syllabary. As part of the Unicode Standard, it is encoded in the Supplementary Multilingual Plane to preserve this historical African writing system for digital use, enabling modern text processing and linguistic research.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+16974 |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Bamum Letter Phase-E Kpeux |
| Block | Bamum Supplement |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𖥴 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𖥴 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x96 0xA5 0xB4 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81A 0xDD74 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00016974 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81a\udd74 |