U+1698D "𖦍" Bamum Letter Phase-E Nggeeee Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𖦍
U+1698D "𖦍" Bamum Letter Phase-E Nggeeee is a specific glyph from the Phase E stage of the Bamum script, a writing system developed in the early 20th century in what is now Cameroon to transcribe the Bamum language. Representing the syllable "nggeeee," this character is part of a later, simplified version of the script created by King Njoya and his scribes to refine and reduce the number of earlier pictographic symbols. It serves as a linguistic tool for phonetic clarity in written Bamum, reflecting the script's evolution toward a more standardized and efficient alphabet.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1698D |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Bamum Letter Phase-E Nggeeee |
| Block | Bamum Supplement |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𖦍 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𖦍 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x96 0xA6 0x8D |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81A 0xDD8D |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001698D |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81a\udd8d |