U+169B9 "𖦹" Bamum Letter Phase-E Ngkaami Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𖦹
U+169B9 "𖦹" Bamum Letter Phase-E Ngkaami is a specific glyph from the Bamum script, which was developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries by King Njoya of the Bamum people in present-day Cameroon. This character belongs to Phase E, one of the later stages in the script's evolution from a logographic system to a simplified syllabary, and it represents the syllable or phoneme "ngkaami." As part of the Bamum Supplement block in Unicode, this character helps preserve the written heritage of the Bamum language and culture, enabling digital representation and scholarly study of this unique African writing system.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+169B9 |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Bamum Letter Phase-E Ngkaami |
| Block | Bamum Supplement |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𖦹 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𖦹 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x96 0xA6 0xB9 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81A 0xDDB9 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000169B9 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81a\uddb9 |