U+169CA "𖧊" Bamum Letter Phase-E Puaq Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+169CA "𖧊" Bamum Letter Phase-E Puaq is a specific glyph from the Bamum script, an indigenous writing system developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in what is now Cameroon, used for writing the Bamum language. This character belongs to the Phase E stage of the script's evolution, which represents one of several reformations by King Ibrahim Njoya to simplify and standardize the syllabary. The name "Puaq" refers to its phonetic value within this phase, and it is encoded in the Unicode Supplementary Multilingual Plane to support the digital preservation and reproduction of historical African writing systems for modern linguistic and cultural applications.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+169CA |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Bamum Letter Phase-E Puaq |
| Block | Bamum Supplement |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𖧊 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𖧊 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x96 0xA7 0x8A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81A 0xDDCA |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000169CA |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81a\uddca |