U+1698C "𖦌" Bamum Letter Phase-E Loot Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𖦌
U+1698C "𖦌" Bamum Letter Phase-E Loot is a part of the Bamum script, an African syllabary developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in what is now Cameroon, used to write the Bamum language. This specific character belongs to the Phase-E stage of the script's evolution, which represents a later simplification of the original writing system created by King Njoya. The glyph is classified as a vowel or syllable component, and its name "Loot" indicates the sound or meaning it represents within the Bamum phonetic inventory. As a modern digital encoding, it allows for the preservation and digital representation of this historical script, ensuring its accessibility in contemporary text processing and data systems.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1698C |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Bamum Letter Phase-E Loot |
| Block | Bamum Supplement |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𖦌 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𖦌 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x96 0xA6 0x8C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81A 0xDD8C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001698C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81a\udd8c |