U+169D5 "𖧕" Bamum Letter Phase-E A Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𖧕
U+169D5 "𖧕" Bamum Letter Phase-E A is a specific glyph from the Bamum script, which was developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries for writing the Bamum language of Cameroon. This particular letter belongs to the Phase-E stage of the script's evolution, representing a later refinement of the writing system after its initial creation by King Njoya in 1896. As part of the Bamum Supplement block in Unicode, it serves as a digital representation of a historical character used to record the language and cultural heritage of the Bamum people.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+169D5 |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Bamum Letter Phase-E A |
| Block | Bamum Supplement |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𖧕 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𖧕 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x96 0xA7 0x95 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81A 0xDDD5 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000169D5 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81a\uddd5 |