U+169D0 "𖧐" Bamum Letter Phase-E Nggup Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𖧐
U+169D0 "𖧐" Bamum Letter Phase-E Nggup is a glyph from the Bamum script, which was developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in what is now Cameroon, under the leadership of King Njoya. This specific character represents a syllable or phoneme in the Phase E version of the script, which was one of several stages in its evolution toward a more streamlined and phonetically accurate writing system. The letter "Nggup" corresponds to a sound in the Bamum language, and its inclusion in Unicode allows for the digital preservation and modern use of this historically significant African script.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+169D0 |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Bamum Letter Phase-E Nggup |
| Block | Bamum Supplement |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𖧐 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𖧐 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x96 0xA7 0x90 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81A 0xDDD0 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000169D0 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81a\uddd0 |