U+1699A "𖦚" Bamum Letter Phase-E Keuae Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𖦚
U+1699A "𖦚" Bamum Letter Phase-E Keuae is a letter belonging to the Bamum script, an indigenous writing system from the Bamum region of modern-day Cameroon, and specifically represents the Phase E stage of that script's historical development, during which the syllabary was standardized and simplified in the early 20th century. This character, named Keuae, corresponds to a particular syllable or sound in the Bamum language, and its inclusion in the Unicode Standard preserves an important piece of African cultural heritage and linguistic history.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1699A |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Bamum Letter Phase-E Keuae |
| Block | Bamum Supplement |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𖦚 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𖦚 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x96 0xA6 0x9A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81A 0xDD9A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001699A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81a\udd9a |