U+169A9 "𖦩" Bamum Letter Phase-E Gbet Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𖦩
U+169A9 "𖦩" Bamum Letter Phase-E Gbet is a glyph from the Bamum script, an African writing system developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in the Kingdom of Bamum, in present-day Cameroon. Specifically, it belongs to Phase E, one of the later stages of the script’s evolution, which was simplified and standardized under the guidance of King Njoya and his scribes. The letter "gbet" represents a syllabic sound in the Bamum language, part of a rich writing tradition that encodes historical records, religious texts, and administrative documents. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures that this cultural heritage can be preserved, accessed, and used digitally by scholars and speakers of the language.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+169A9 |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Bamum Letter Phase-E Gbet |
| Block | Bamum Supplement |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𖦩 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𖦩 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x96 0xA6 0xA9 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81A 0xDDA9 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000169A9 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81a\udda9 |