U+169EE "𖧮" Bamum Letter Phase-E Mi Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𖧮
U+169EE "𖧮" Bamum Letter Phase-E Mi is part of the Bamum script, which was originally developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries by King Njoya of the Bamum people in present-day Cameroon to write the Bamum language. This specific character belongs to the Phase E stage of the script's evolution, a period when the writing system was significantly simplified and standardized, moving from an earlier logographic system with hundreds of characters to a more manageable syllabary. Representing the syllable "mi," it serves as a functional component in written Bamum, reflecting the language's phonetic structure and the cultural effort to preserve and modernize indigenous communication.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+169EE |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Bamum Letter Phase-E Mi |
| Block | Bamum Supplement |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𖧮 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𖧮 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x96 0xA7 0xAE |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81A 0xDDEE |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000169EE |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81a\uddee |