U+169EC "𖧬" Bamum Letter Phase-E Vee Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𖧬
U+169EC "𖧬" Bamum Letter Phase-E Vee is part of the Bamum script, which was originally developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in what is now Cameroon by King Njoya of the Bamum people to write the Bamum language. This particular character belongs to Phase E of the script's historical evolution, during which the complex syllabary was simplified into a more streamlined alphabet. The letter "Vee" represents a specific sound in the language and is encoded in the Unicode Standard's Supplementary Multilingual Plane, ensuring its digital preservation for modern linguistic and cultural documentation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+169EC |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Bamum Letter Phase-E Vee |
| Block | Bamum Supplement |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𖧬 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𖧬 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x96 0xA7 0xAC |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81A 0xDDEC |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000169EC |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81a\uddec |