U+169CE "𖧎" Bamum Letter Phase-E Ntap Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𖧎
U+169CE "𖧎" Bamum Letter Phase-E Ntap is a specific glyph from the Bamum script, which was developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in what is now Cameroon by King Njoya and his scribes to write the Bamum language. This character belongs to Phase E, one of several evolutionary stages of the script that underwent significant simplification and reorganization over time, with "Ntap" representing its phonetic value. As part of the Bamum Supplement block in Unicode, it serves to preserve a unique cultural and linguistic heritage, enabling digital representation of a writing system that historically transitioned from a logographic to a syllabic form.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+169CE |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Bamum Letter Phase-E Ntap |
| Block | Bamum Supplement |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𖧎 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𖧎 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x96 0xA7 0x8E |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81A 0xDDCE |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000169CE |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81a\uddce |