U+169DF "𖧟" Bamum Letter Phase-E Yeux Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𖧟
U+169DF "𖧟" Bamum Letter Phase-E Yeux is a glyph from the Bamum script, specifically belonging to the Phase E stage of the script's evolution, which was used for writing the Bamum language in what is now Cameroon. The name "Yeux" is the French word for "eyes," and this character represents a syllable or phoneme in the Bamum writing system, which was developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries by King Njoya and his scribes. This phase of the script simplified earlier forms to create a more efficient and widely used syllabary, and the character is encoded in the Supplementary Multilingual Plane of the Unicode Standard to support digital preservation and representation of the Bamum language.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+169DF |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Bamum Letter Phase-E Yeux |
| Block | Bamum Supplement |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𖧟 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𖧟 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x96 0xA7 0x9F |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81A 0xDDDF |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000169DF |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81a\udddf |