U+169C1 "𖧁" Bamum Letter Phase-E Nzuq Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𖧁
U+169C1 "𖧁" Bamum Letter Phase-E Nzuq is part of the Bamum script, a writing system developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries by King Ibrahim Njoya of the Bamum Kingdom in present-day Cameroon. This specific letter belongs to Phase-E, which is one of the later stages in the script's complex evolution from a pictographic system to a more streamlined syllabary. The character represents the syllable "nzuq" and is used in the Bamum language to transcribe sounds, contributing to the preservation and revitalization of Bamum cultural heritage and written communication.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+169C1 |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Bamum Letter Phase-E Nzuq |
| Block | Bamum Supplement |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𖧁 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𖧁 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x96 0xA7 0x81 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81A 0xDDC1 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000169C1 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81a\uddc1 |