U+1699B "𖦛" Bamum Letter Phase-E Suaen Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𖦛
U+1699B "𖦛" Bamum Letter Phase-E Suaen is part of the Bamum script, which was developed in the Bamum Kingdom of present-day Cameroon by King Njoya in the early 20th century. This specific character belongs to Phase E, a later stage in the script's evolution, and represents a syllabic or phonetic element used in writing the Bamum language. It appears in a supplementary Unicode block for historic scripts and is encoded for use in digital texts, preserving a linguistic heritage that transitioned from pictographic to an alphabetic system over time.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1699B |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Bamum Letter Phase-E Suaen |
| Block | Bamum Supplement |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𖦛 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𖦛 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x96 0xA6 0x9B |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81A 0xDD9B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001699B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81a\udd9b |