U+16A0C "𖨌" Bamum Letter Phase-F Riee Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𖨌
U+16A0C "𖨌" Bamum Letter Phase-F Riee is a specific glyph from the Bamum script, an indigenous writing system of the Bamum people in present day Cameroon, representing the syllable "rie" and belonging to the Phase F stage of the script's historical evolution. This phase, developed in the early 20th century under King Ibrahim Njoya, simplified earlier complex symbols into a more streamlined syllabary, with "Riee" functioning as a phonetic character used in written communication for the Bamum language. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures digital preservation and accessibility, allowing for modern text rendering and scholarly analysis of this culturally significant African script.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+16A0C |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Bamum Letter Phase-F Riee |
| Block | Bamum Supplement |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𖨌 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𖨌 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x96 0xA8 0x8C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81A 0xDE0C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00016A0C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81a\ude0c |