U+16A08 "𖨈" Bamum Letter Phase-F Tae Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𖨈
U+16A08 "𖨈" Bamum Letter Phase-F Tae is part of the Bamum script, a writing system developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in the Bamum Kingdom, located in present-day Cameroon. This specific glyph belongs to Phase F, the final and most streamlined stage of the Bamum alphabet's evolution from a complex pictographic system to a simpler syllabary. Representing the syllable "tae," it is one of many characters used to transcribe the Bamum language, which continues to be studied and revitalized for cultural and educational purposes today.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+16A08 |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Bamum Letter Phase-F Tae |
| Block | Bamum Supplement |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𖨈 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𖨈 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x96 0xA8 0x88 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81A 0xDE08 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00016A08 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81a\ude08 |