U+1697B "𖥻" Bamum Letter Phase-E Lom Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𖥻
U+1697B "𖥻" Bamum Letter Phase-E Lom is a glyph 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 represents a syllable in Phase E, one of the later stages in the script's simplification process led by King Ibrahim Njoya, where the number of symbols was drastically reduced from over 500 to roughly 80 letters. "Lom" itself is a phonetic value within the Bamum language, and the character was encoded in Unicode to preserve historical and cultural heritage.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1697B |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Bamum Letter Phase-E Lom |
| Block | Bamum Supplement |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𖥻 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𖥻 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x96 0xA5 0xBB |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81A 0xDD7B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001697B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81a\udd7b |