U+169C9 "𖧉" Bamum Letter Phase-E Mvi Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𖧉
U+169C9 "𖧉" Bamum Letter Phase-E Mvi is part of the Bamum script, a writing system developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in the Bamum kingdom, located in present day Cameroon. This specific character represents the syllable or sound "mvi" and belongs to Phase E, which was the fifth major stage in the script's evolution, where King Njoya and his scholars simplified and refined the original pictographic system into a more streamlined syllabary. The character is used in the modern Bamum language, primarily for cultural and historical documentation, and it reflects the rich linguistic heritage of the Bamum people.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+169C9 |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Bamum Letter Phase-E Mvi |
| Block | Bamum Supplement |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𖧉 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𖧉 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x96 0xA7 0x89 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81A 0xDDC9 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000169C9 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81a\uddc9 |