U+16996 "𖦖" Bamum Letter Phase-E Tuae Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𖦖
U+16996 "𖦖" Bamum Letter Phase-E Tuae is a grapheme from the Bamum scripts, which were developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries for writing the Bamum language of Cameroon. This specific character belongs to Phase E, a stage in the script's evolution where King Njoya and his scribes simplified the earlier pictographic system into a more streamlined syllabary. "Tuae" represents a distinct syllable or sound in the Bamum language, and its inclusion in the Unicode Standard ensures that this historical and cultural writing system can be digitally preserved and used in modern text processing.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+16996 |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Bamum Letter Phase-E Tuae |
| Block | Bamum Supplement |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𖦖 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𖦖 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x96 0xA6 0x96 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81A 0xDD96 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00016996 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81a\udd96 |