U+16A1D "𖨝" Bamum Letter Phase-F Ya Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𖨝
U+16A1D "𖨝" Bamum Letter Phase-F Ya is a specific letter from the Bamum script, a writing system developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in what is now Cameroon, primarily for writing the Bamum language. This character belongs to Phase-F, which is one of the later stages of the script's evolution, representing a more simplified and standardized syllabic writing system compared to earlier pictographic or ideographic phases. The letter "Ya" corresponds to a specific syllable or sound in the Bamum language, and its inclusion in Unicode ensures that digital text processing and display systems can preserve and represent this historically significant script.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+16A1D |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Bamum Letter Phase-F Ya |
| Block | Bamum Supplement |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𖨝 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𖨝 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x96 0xA8 0x9D |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81A 0xDE1D |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00016A1D |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81a\ude1d |