U+16997 "𖦗" Bamum Letter Phase-E Yeuae Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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U+16997 "𖦗" Bamum Letter Phase-E Yeuae is a glyph from the Bamum script, an indigenous writing system developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries for the Bamum language spoken in present day Cameroon. This particular letter belongs to Phase E, one of the later reform stages of the script created under the direction of King Ibrahim Njoya, which simplified earlier complex pictographic forms into a phonetic syllabary. The character represents a specific syllable or sound used in writing the Bamum language, and it is encoded in the Unicode Standard to preserve and support the digital representation of this historically and culturally significant African writing system, enabling its use in modern text processing and archival documentation.

General Properties

Code Point U+16997
Version Added 6.0
Name Bamum Letter Phase-E Yeuae
Block Bamum Supplement
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 𖦗
HTML Hex Encoding 𖦗
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x96 0xA6 0x97
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD81A 0xDD97
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00016997
C/C++/Java Escape \ud81a\udd97

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Alphabetic
Script Bamum
Script Extensions Bamum
Indic Syllabic Category Other
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Rotated
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter