U+169B0 "ð–¦°" Bamum Letter Phase-E Ndiaq Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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U+169B0 "ð–¦°" Bamum Letter Phase-E Ndiaq is a glyph from the Bamum script, an indigenous writing system developed in the early 20th century for the Bamum language spoken in present day Cameroon, and it belongs specifically to the Phase E stage of that script's historical evolution. This character represents the syllable "ndiaq" and is part of a larger alphabet system created by King Ibrahim Njoya, which underwent several simplifications and revisions over time. Phase E was a late stage of the script that reduced the number of characters to a more manageable set, making writing more accessible, and the letter Ndiaq was used for phonetic transcription in that streamlined version. In modern contexts, this character is encoded in the Unicode standard to preserve and support the digital representation of the Bamum writing system, allowing for its use in electronic texts and linguistic documentation.

General Properties

Code Point U+169B0
Version Added 6.0
Name Bamum Letter Phase-E Ndiaq
Block Bamum Supplement
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 𖦰
HTML Hex Encoding 𖦰
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x96 0xA6 0xB0
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD81A 0xDDB0
UTF-32 Encoding 0x000169B0
C/C++/Java Escape \ud81a\uddb0

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