U+169CD "𖧍" Bamum Letter Phase-E Piet Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𖧍
U+169CD "𖧍" Bamum Letter Phase-E Piet is a specific glyph from the Bamum script, a writing system historically used by the Bamum people in present-day Cameroon to record the language of the same name. This character belongs to the "Phase-E" subset of the script, which represents the final stage of an extensive syllabary reform undertaken by King Njoya and his scholars in the early 20th century. As a letter, it encodes a particular syllabic sound, and its inclusion in Unicode ensures that this endangered script can be digitally preserved and utilized in modern computing environments, supporting both historical documentation and contemporary revitalization efforts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+169CD |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Bamum Letter Phase-E Piet |
| Block | Bamum Supplement |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𖧍 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𖧍 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x96 0xA7 0x8D |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81A 0xDDCD |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000169CD |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81a\uddcd |