U+1699E "𖦞" Bamum Letter Phase-E Weux Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𖦞
U+1699E "𖦞" Bamum Letter Phase-E Weux is a symbol from the Bamum script, a writing system developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries for the Bamum language spoken in present-day Cameroon. This specific character belongs to Phase E, one of the later stages in the script’s evolution, during which King Njoya and his scholars refined and simplified the syllabary to over 80 characters. The letter Weux represents a syllable or sound used in the Bamum language, and it is part of the Unicode standard’s effort to preserve and digitally encode endangered scripts, enabling modern electronic text representation and safeguarding this cultural heritage for future generations.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1699E |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Bamum Letter Phase-E Weux |
| Block | Bamum Supplement |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𖦞 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𖦞 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x96 0xA6 0x9E |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81A 0xDD9E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001699E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81a\udd9e |