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

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