U+169B5 "𖦵" Bamum Letter Phase-E Gbeux Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𖦵
U+169B5 "𖦵" Bamum Letter Phase-E Gbeux is a glyph from the Bamum script, which was developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in what is now Cameroon to write the Bamum language. This specific character belongs to the Phase-E stage of the script's evolution, which represents a later simplified and standardized form of the writing system. Its name, "Gbeux," corresponds to a phoneme in the Bamum language, and it is encoded in the Unicode standard under the Bamum Supplement block, serving to digitally preserve and enable the use of this historical African script in modern text processing and digital communication.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+169B5 |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Bamum Letter Phase-E Gbeux |
| Block | Bamum Supplement |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𖦵 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𖦵 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x96 0xA6 0xB5 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81A 0xDDB5 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000169B5 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81a\uddb5 |