U+16A02 "𖨂" Bamum Letter Phase-E Ghom Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𖨂
U+16A02 "𖨂" Bamum Letter Phase-E Ghom is part of the Bamum script, an indigenous writing system developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries for the Bamum language of Cameroon. This specific character belongs to the Phase-E stage of the script's evolution, representing the syllable "ghom" and reflecting the ongoing refinement of the Bamum syllabary by King Njoya and his scribes. Phase-E introduced a more streamlined and systematic set of characters compared to earlier phases, making the script more accessible for writing the tonal and phonetic nuances of the Bamum language.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+16A02 |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Bamum Letter Phase-E Ghom |
| Block | Bamum Supplement |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𖨂 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𖨂 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x96 0xA8 0x82 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81A 0xDE02 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00016A02 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81a\ude02 |