U+169B8 "𖦸" Bamum Letter Phase-E Mae Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𖦸
U+169B8 "𖦸" Bamum Letter Phase-E Mae is a glyph from the Bamum scripts, which are a series of writing systems developed in the early 20th century by King Njoya of the Bamum people in present-day Cameroon. This particular character belongs to Phase E, one of the later stages in the script’s evolution, and it represents a specific syllabic sound used in the Bamum language. The character is part of the Supplementary Multilingual Plane within Unicode, preserving a fragment of West African cultural heritage and enabling digital representation of historical Bamum texts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+169B8 |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Bamum Letter Phase-E Mae |
| Block | Bamum Supplement |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𖦸 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𖦸 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x96 0xA6 0xB8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81A 0xDDB8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000169B8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81a\uddb8 |