U+16A29 "𖨩" Bamum Letter Phase-F Sho Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𖨩
U+16A29 "𖨩" Bamum Letter Phase-F Sho is a glyph from the Bamum scripts, a syllabary system developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries for writing the Bamum language of Cameroon. This specific character belongs to Phase-F, which represents the sixth and final stage in the script's evolution, where it became a purely alphabetic system with a reduced set of symbols. The letter "Sho" corresponds to a consonant sound in the Bamum language and is part of a broader effort to encode and preserve this historic African writing system in digital formats, allowing for its use in modern text processing and cultural heritage documentation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+16A29 |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Bamum Letter Phase-F Sho |
| Block | Bamum Supplement |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𖨩 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𖨩 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x96 0xA8 0xA9 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81A 0xDE29 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00016A29 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81a\ude29 |