U+169BC "𖦼" Bamum Letter Phase-E Ntum Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𖦼
U+169BC "𖦼" Bamum Letter Phase-E Ntum is a glyph from the Phase E version of the Bamum script, an indigenous writing system developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries for the Bamum language spoken in Cameroon. This specific letter, named "Ntum," represents a consonant sound in the language and is part of a larger set of characters that evolved through several phases of simplification and standardization by the Bamum king and scholars. The character is encoded in the Supplementary Multilingual Plane of Unicode, allowing for digital representation and revitalization of this historically significant script.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+169BC |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Bamum Letter Phase-E Ntum |
| Block | Bamum Supplement |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𖦼 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𖦼 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x96 0xA6 0xBC |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81A 0xDDBC |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000169BC |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81a\uddbc |