U+16A0E "𖨎" Bamum Letter Phase-F Taa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𖨎
U+16A0E "𖨎" Bamum Letter Phase-F Taa is a script symbol used in the Bamum syllabary, a writing system developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in what is now Cameroon by King Ibrahim Njoya and his scribes. This particular character belongs to Phase F, which represents a later stage of the script’s evolution toward a more streamlined phonetic syllable system. The letter "Taa" corresponds to a specific syllable sound in the Bamum language, and its inclusion in the Unicode standard ensures its preservation and digital use for linguistic study, cultural heritage projects, and modern communication among Bamum speakers and researchers.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+16A0E |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Bamum Letter Phase-F Taa |
| Block | Bamum Supplement |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𖨎 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𖨎 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x96 0xA8 0x8E |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81A 0xDE0E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00016A0E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81a\ude0e |