U+169AC "𖦬" Bamum Letter Phase-E Yap Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𖦬
U+169AC "𖦬" Bamum Letter Phase-E Yap is a glyph representing a specific phonetic syllable from the final, simplified script phase (Phase E) of the Bamum syllabary, an indigenous writing system invented in the late 19th century by King Njoya of the Bamum people in present-day Cameroon. This particular letter encodes the sound "yap" and is part of a larger set of characters that were part of a gradual simplification process, reducing the script from hundreds of pictographic symbols to a more manageable syllabary. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures that this historic writing system, which faced a decline in use, can be preserved and digitally represented for linguistic and cultural documentation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+169AC |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Bamum Letter Phase-E Yap |
| Block | Bamum Supplement |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𖦬 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𖦬 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x96 0xA6 0xAC |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81A 0xDDAC |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000169AC |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81a\uddac |