U+169F9 "𖧹" Bamum Letter Phase-E Ko Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𖧹
U+169F9 "𖧹" Bamum Letter Phase-E Ko is part of the Bamum script, which was developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries by King Njoya of the Bamum people in present day Cameroon. This specific character belongs to Phase E, a stage in the script's evolution where it was simplified and standardized for wider use. The letter "Ko" represents a consonant sound, and it was used to write historical and administrative texts in the Bamum language. Originally engraved into a wooden “alphabet board” during the script’s development, this character now serves as a digital representation of a key element in one of Africa’s few indigenous invented writing systems.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+169F9 |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Bamum Letter Phase-E Ko |
| Block | Bamum Supplement |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𖧹 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𖧹 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x96 0xA7 0xB9 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81A 0xDDF9 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000169F9 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81a\uddf9 |