U+16A14 "𖨔" Bamum Letter Phase-F Si Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𖨔
U+16A14 "𖨔" Bamum Letter Phase-F Si is a glyph representing a syllable from the final phase of the Bamum script, an indigenous writing system developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in the Bamum Kingdom of present-day Cameroon. This character corresponds to the sound "si" and belongs to the Phase-F revision, which was part of a series of script simplifications overseen by King Njoya and his scribes to make the writing more efficient and accessible. It is encoded in the Bamum Supplement block of Unicode, specifically assigned to support modern digital typography for this historic African script, preserving a unique cultural and linguistic heritage.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+16A14 |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Bamum Letter Phase-F Si |
| Block | Bamum Supplement |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𖨔 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𖨔 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x96 0xA8 0x94 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81A 0xDE14 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00016A14 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81a\ude14 |