U+169F2 "𖧲" Bamum Letter Phase-E Nga Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𖧲
U+169F2 "𖧲" Bamum Letter Phase-E Nga is a glyph from the Bamum script, which was developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in what is now Cameroon, representing a refined syllabic writing system for the Bamum language. This particular character, part of the Phase E stage of the script's evolution, encodes the phonetic value "nga" and serves as a key component in written communication for the language. It belongs to the Supplementary Multilingual Plane within Unicode, supporting the preservation and digital representation of this historically significant African script.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+169F2 |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Bamum Letter Phase-E Nga |
| Block | Bamum Supplement |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𖧲 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𖧲 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x96 0xA7 0xB2 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81A 0xDDF2 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000169F2 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81a\uddf2 |