U+16994 "𖦔" Bamum Letter Phase-E Yiee Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𖦔
U+16994 "𖦔" Bamum Letter Phase-E Yiee is a glyph from the Bamum script, which was developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries for writing the Bamum language of Cameroon. This specific character belongs to Phase E, a later stage in the script's evolution that simplified and standardized earlier forms. As a letter representing a sound in the language, "Yiee" denotes a syllable or phoneme used in written communication within the Bamum community. The inclusion of this character in Unicode helps preserve and support digital text for the Bamum script, allowing for its use in modern computing environments and protecting a part of Cameroon's cultural heritage.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+16994 |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Bamum Letter Phase-E Yiee |
| Block | Bamum Supplement |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𖦔 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𖦔 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x96 0xA6 0x94 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81A 0xDD94 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00016994 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81a\udd94 |