U+169FA "𖧺" Bamum Letter Phase-E Men Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𖧺
U+169FA "𖧺" Bamum Letter Phase-E Men is a glyph representing a specific syllable or phonetic component from the Bamum script, an indigenous writing system developed for the Bamum language of Cameroon. This particular letter belongs to Phase E, a later stage in the script's evolution where the writing system was simplified from its earlier, more pictographic forms under the reign of King Ibrahim Njoya. The character "Men" encodes a sound or concept used in written Bamum, and its inclusion in Unicode ensures that this historical and cultural script can be preserved, studied, and used in modern digital environments.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+169FA |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Bamum Letter Phase-E Men |
| Block | Bamum Supplement |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𖧺 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𖧺 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x96 0xA7 0xBA |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81A 0xDDFA |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000169FA |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81a\uddfa |