U+16A0F "𖨏" Bamum Letter Phase-F Ndaa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𖨏
U+16A0F "𖨏" Bamum Letter Phase-F Ndaa is a glyph from the Bamum script’s historical Phase F, one of the many stages in the evolution of the writing system created for the Bamum language spoken in present day Cameroon. This letter represents the sound "ndaa" and is part of a larger effort by King Ibrahim Njoya and his advisors in the early 20th century to reform and simplify the script over several phases, with Phase F being one of the later, more streamlined versions. The character itself visually resembles a stylized figure or abstract shape, typical of the script’s logographic and syllabic origins, and it is encoded in the Unicode Standard to support digital preservation and modern use of this culturally significant writing system.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+16A0F |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Bamum Letter Phase-F Ndaa |
| Block | Bamum Supplement |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𖨏 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𖨏 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x96 0xA8 0x8F |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81A 0xDE0F |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00016A0F |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81a\ude0f |