U+169B3 "𖦳" Bamum Letter Phase-E Leuaem Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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U+169B3 "𖦳" Bamum Letter Phase-E Leuaem is part of the Bamum script, a writing system developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in what is now Cameroon, first by King Njoya and later refined through multiple phases. This specific character belongs to Phase-E, which represents one of the later stages of the script's evolution toward a more streamlined syllabary, and its name "Leuaem" corresponds to a particular syllable sound in the Bamum language. As a historic script element now encoded in Unicode under the Supplementary Multilingual Plane, it serves to preserve and digitally represent the cultural and linguistic heritage of the Bamum people.

General Properties

Code Point U+169B3
Version Added 6.0
Name Bamum Letter Phase-E Leuaem
Block Bamum Supplement
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 𖦳
HTML Hex Encoding 𖦳
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x96 0xA6 0xB3
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD81A 0xDDB3
UTF-32 Encoding 0x000169B3
C/C++/Java Escape \ud81a\uddb3

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