U+169ED "ð–§" Bamum Letter Phase-E Lu Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ð–§
U+169ED "ð–§" Bamum Letter Phase-E Lu is a specific glyph from the Bamum script, an African writing system developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in what is now Cameroon. This character belongs to a later stage of the script known as Phase E, which was part of a series of simplifications and reforms made by King Ibrahim Njoya and his scribes to create a more efficient syllabary. Representing the syllable "lu," it is used in the Bamum language to write texts preserving historical records, cultural knowledge, and royal decrees, and it is encoded in the Unicode standard to support digital preservation and modern communication for the Bamum script.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+169ED |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Bamum Letter Phase-E Lu |
| Block | Bamum Supplement |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𖧭 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𖧭 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x96 0xA7 0xAD |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81A 0xDDED |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000169ED |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81a\udded |