U+169C7 "𖧇" Bamum Letter Phase-E Gheuae Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𖧇
U+169C7 "𖧇" Bamum Letter Phase-E Gheuae is a symbol from the Bamum script, specifically belonging to the Phase E stage of the script's evolution, which was used in the Kingdom of Bamum in present day Cameroon. This character represents the sound "gheuae" in the Bamum language, contributing to the phonetic transcription of the local speech through a visually distinctive glyph. Its inclusion in Unicode helps preserve and digitally support the Bamum writing system, which underwent a series of reforms and simplifications during the early 20th century.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+169C7 |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Bamum Letter Phase-E Gheuae |
| Block | Bamum Supplement |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𖧇 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𖧇 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x96 0xA7 0x87 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81A 0xDDC7 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000169C7 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81a\uddc7 |