U+16A21 "𖨡" Bamum Letter Phase-F Wue Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𖨡
U+16A21 "𖨡" Bamum Letter Phase-F Wue is a specific glyph from the Bamum script, an indigenous writing system developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in present-day Cameroon by King Njoya and his scribes. This character belongs to Phase-F, one of the later stages of the script's evolution, which featured a streamlined and more phonetic set of symbols compared to earlier, more logographic phases. "Bamum Letter Phase-F Wue" represents a specific syllabic sound, likely a consonant vowel combination, used to write the Bamum language. This character is encoded in the Unicode standard to ensure its preservation and digital use, supporting modern textual representation of this historically significant West African script.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+16A21 |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Bamum Letter Phase-F Wue |
| Block | Bamum Supplement |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𖨡 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𖨡 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x96 0xA8 0xA1 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81A 0xDE21 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00016A21 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81a\ude21 |